"'Mercenaries' to be Charged in South Africa"

Baffling diseases emerging from Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Some of the viruses are notorious, such as Ebola and HIV. Others have less familiar names: Marburg and Lassa fever. But they all have emerged in recent decades from sub-Saharan Africa, perplexing scientists and, in the case of HIV, killing millions.

53 AU ministers to attend transport summit
About 53 African Union (AU) ministers responsible for transport are expected to attend the four-day air transport summit starting tomorrow at Sun City in the North West province. Addressing the media, Jeff Radebe, the transport minister, said the meeting will review the African ministers' decisions taken five ago.

SABC Africa celebrates Africa Day
Africa Day is day celebrated in some countries in the continent but in South Africa, it has not been proclaimed a public holiday yet. Despite this, SABC Africa celebrated Africa Day. The theme of this year's celebration: Africa's successes both economically and politically. Next week will see a number of countries in the continent celebrating Africa Day, some which have emerged from various hardships as a result of colonialism. It also marks the continuation of solidarity amongst Africans both in the diaspora and the continent.

South Africa Advocates Aid Transparency Initiative
South Africa's Finance Minister, Trevor Manuel has advocated an Aid Transparency Initiative focused on monitoring aid flow and how the aid is managed on the African continent.

Ethiopia opposition claims big election gains

Suspected Mercenaries to be Charged in South Africa
South Africa will charge a total of 64 men who were arrested and jailed last year in Zimbabwe, while apparently enroute to Equatorial Guinea to participate in a botched coup. Those to be charged include 61 released this past weekend and deported to South Africa.

Chavez Says Venezuela has Plan in Case He's Killed
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday that if he is assassinated, his government has a contingency plan to prevent his enemies from taking control of the world's No. 5 oil exporter.

Speech at Conference Assails Right Wing
Bill Moyers denounced on Sunday the right wing and top officials at the White House, saying they are trying to silence their critics by controlling the news media. He also took aim at reporters who become little more than willing government "stenographers." And he said the public increasingly is content with just enough news to confirm its own biases

News Media and "the Madness of Militarism"
Media activism has achieved a lot. But I don't believe there's anything to be satisfied with -- considering the present-day realities of corporate media and the warfare state.

Ottawa to track missing native women
The federal government is set to announce $5 million in spending to help reduce the lost ranks of murdered or missing aboriginal women.

America's drugs plan in tatters as cocaine and corruption flourish
Washington's "war on drugs" in Colombia is collapsing in chaos and corruption, and the drug producers are winning. The so-called Plan Colombia, which has cost the US more than $3bn (£1.6bn) in the past five years, is being abandoned, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has announced.

Fidel Castro and Freedom for the Cuban Five
Havana, May 12 (AIN) The battle against terrorism is also a one for the release of five Cuban political prisoners incarcerated in the United States, asserted Cuban President Fidel Castro in a nationally televised address Thursday.

Fury as Haiti quashes massacre verdicts
IN A nation where state-sponsored massacres are as common as the impunity granted to their perpetrators, the Raboteau trial shone as a beacon of long-denied justice.

Palestinians mark day of catastrophe
Palestinians have observed the blackest day in their history with warnings that there will be no Middle East peace until they get independence and the plight of their refugees is solved.

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Bolivia: What makes Evo Morales tick?

China Contests Out of Africa Claims
The over million-year-old evidence consists of three tooth fossils found in a mountain cave at Mazhaping Village in the Gaoping Township of Jianshi County, western Hubei Province. Because researchers also found stone tools and remains of fire hearths dating to 130,000 years ago at nearby sites, China established a Jianshi Man research team to collectively analyze the findings.