"East Africa's oil and gas"

Humans left Asia for Africa, then returned
Three newly discovered primate species that lived 30 million years ago suggest that our ancestors originated in Asia not Africa, challenging the well-known "Out of Africa" theory of human evolution.

Why Growth Doesn't Always Reduce Poverty
Africa has the highest level of poverty in the world and is one of the two regions where poverty has not declined in the past 20 years.

India and China eyeing east Africa's oil and gas reserves
India and China are homing in on east Africa's oil and gas reserves as Europe and the United States continue to depend on western Africa for supplies, the chief of a British petroleum firm said Wednesday.

Africa in 15 years: Where will Ghana be?
"Ghana demonstrates that Africa can be a destination for outsourcing and such service jobs will become even more important in the next few years."

Mozambique open for oil exploration
Mozambique is angling for major petroleum companies to engage in oil and gas exploration, with a top official saying on Wednesday that results could be expected within six months.

Nigeria's Boldness Energises Africa Says VP
Vice President Atiku Abubakar on May 28 said Nigeria successfully championed the cause of decolonising Africa, dismantling of apartheid and promotion of economic development through the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) because the country is 'A Nation of Bold People'.

S Africa estimates Aids toll lower than India's
South Africa's official statistics agency estimated yesterday that about 4.5mn people were infected with Aids virus, a figure which would drop South Africa behind India as the country worst hit by the epidemic. UN estimates have suggested that at least 5.3mn South Africans are infected with HIV compared with 5.1mn in India, the country with the second highest caseload.

East Africa Should Forge Stronger Ties, Says Leaders
Presidents Mwai Kibaki, Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania said a strong East African Federation should be established.

Wolfowitz Pledges to Change Africa

Western businessmen bitter as Cuba closes doors
HAVANA – Western companies welcomed in Cuba as heroes a decade ago for bucking the U.S. embargo are packing up and leaving as the Communist government rolls back market reforms and squeezes out intermediaries.

Developing Countries Hit Hardest By Spam
Developing nations are struck hardest by spam, which sucks up capacity and resources of Internet service providers and discourages consumers from using the web, an international body said.

Killing Americans With Secrecy
The Pennsylvania Department of Health claims it has a plan to deal with a potential outbreak of H5N1, a lethal strain of the Avian influenza. But it's a secret plan.

Fiddling while Siberia burns:
'lungs of Europe' under threat from forest fires
Russia's pristine forests are the lungs of Europe. But vast swathes are being destroyed by global warming and loggers' greed - and ill-equipped firefighters are powerless to act

Diebold Optical Scan Voting System Hacked (3 Ways)

Recruiting of Salvadoran Mercenaries for Iraq Denounced
Social organizations in El Salvador have denounced that hundreds of Salvadorans are recruited by security agencies to work as mercenaries in Iraq under the veil of private security forces.

Epithets increase tension over Korea

US Arms for Terrorists?
The Colombian police heard in early May that a big deal was going down inside a gated luxury community southwest of Bogotá. On May 3 they followed Colombian suspects, two of whom turned out to be retired Colombian Army officers, to a house filled with twenty-nine metal crates of arms and 32,000 rounds of ammunition. The police were still taking inventory of the cache when two more suspects knocked on the door. The police arrested them, only to learn they were US soldiers. The Colombian police said the arms were bound for an illegal paramilitary group that the State Department considers to be both a drug-trafficking and a terrorist organization.

'World' Bodies Under Fire for Serving the Few, Not the Many
The United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and World Trade Organization (WTO) were criticized as lacking transparency and accountability and practicing political elitism and decision-making dictated by the rich and powerful

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld Attack Amnesty International
Stung by Amnesty International's condemnation of U.S. detention facilities in Iraq and elsewhere overseas, the administration of President George W. Bush is reacting with indignation and even suggestions that terrorists are using the world's largest human rights organization.

Amnesty International's Response to Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld and the Bush Administration ignored or dismissed Amnesty International's reports on the abuse of detainees for years, and senior officials continue to ignore the very real plight of men detained without charge or trial. Amnesty International first communicated its concerns at the treatment of prisoners to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld in January 2002 and continued to raise these concerns at the highest levels as allegations of abuse mounted from Afghanistan, Guantanamo and Iraq. The response was to bar AI's human rights investigators from visiting US detention facilities, in contrast to countries as diverse as Libya and Sudan, where governments have accepted the value of independent monitoring.