"ZAMBIA: More than a million in need of food aid"

Violence flares in Sudan
Sudanese rebels pressed on Tuesday with an offensive against government troops near the Red Sea, sparking accusations of Eritrean involvement and fears of a new conflict.

Somalia: Abdualhi and Sharif finally sit together in Yemen
Thanks to president Ali Abdalla Salah of Yemen, the two leaders agreed to sit and talk about their differences in the presence of Yemen officials – a good progress but embarrassment to Somali people whose leaders cannot solve their problems without a third country intervention.

West Africa Cycle of Violence

Hero of the film 'Hotel Rwanda' tours U.S.
Paul Rusesabagina visited Atlanta, Ga. and Washington, D.C. this week to address American students and business leaders at schools and conferences centers. His appearances coincide with World Refugee Day events in Washington.

Swaziland losing marijuana battle
PIGG'S PEAK, SWAZILAND - After hours of scrambling over rugged mountain terrain, Swaziland's anti-drug squad finds a secret field packed with some of the world's most potent pot. "Swazi Gold" is grown in the remote northern mountains of this tiny African kingdom, then smuggled into neighboring South Africa and on to Europe and North America.

UK cops ignore India's most-wanted paedophile
Twenty days after India's most-wanted paedophile and charity worker Duncan Grant entered Britain, the London police is yet to question him.

Togo's PM forms new government
Togo's newly appointed Prime Minister Edem Kodjo formed a government on Monday including ministers from the opposition, national television reported quoting a presidential decree.

'Uganda's Record On Refugees Exemplary'
Uganda's extraordinary hospitality to refugees is exemplary in the world, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Mr Antonio Guterres, has said.

Western Sahara: protest against Spanish activists
'Hundreds' protest against 'pro-separatist' Spanish activists
Laayoune, 19 June: Hundreds of citizens today Sunday held a protest at the Hassan I Airport in Laayoune against the scheming intentions and provocative attempts of the Spanish pro-separatist activists who are trying to visit the town despite the Moroccan authorities' refusal to let them step on national soil.

Flashback: Western Sahara's quest for self-determination

Zambia launches first survey on HIV/AIDS service provision
Zambia launched on Monday its first ever survey on HIV/AIDS service provision in the country by opening a training course for those field staff who will conduct the survey.

ZAMBIA: More than a million in need of food aid
More than 1.2 million Zambians will require food assistance for the next eight months, a senior official told IRIN on Monday.

Mugabe: We are being targeted
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who has agreed to allow United nations (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan's special envoy to probe a globally condemned razing of illegal shanty towns and offices, feels his country is being unfairly targeted, a state-run daily said on Tuesday. "We have, against the background of misplaced hue and cry over Operation Murambatsvina agreed to receive the secretary-general's special envoy on the matter," Mugabe's spokesperson George Charamba was quoted as saying by the state-owned Herald on Tuesday.

UN to Investigate Zimbabwe Street Evictions
A UN envoy will visit Zimbabwe shortly to study the impact of the government's recent eviction of street traders and shack dwellers, which UN experts say has left more than 1.5 million people without homes and livelihoods, the UN spokesman said yesterday. Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has agreed that Anna Tibaijuka, who has just been named Annan's special envoy for human settlement issues in Zimbabwe, "should visit the country as soon as possible," spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.

A War Waged by Liars and Morons
For what purpose has President Bush sent 1,741 US soldiers to be killed in action in Iraq (as of June 19, 2005)? For what purpose have 15,000 - 38,000 US troops been wounded, many so seriously that they are maimed for life? Why has the US government thrown away $300 billion in an illegal and pointless war that cannot be won?

How Haiti's Future May Depend on a Starving Prisoner
Port-Au-Prince, Haiti - Once again, one man has become the center of a political storm that threatens to foil this country's uphill struggle for stability. This time, it's not Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the former priest and charismatic slum leader who was deposed last year by an armed uprising and forced into exile. It is the man who rose and fell in Mr. Aristide's shadow, his former prime minister, Yvon Neptune.

Iraqi: U.S. Delaying Saddam Interrogations
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Iraq's justice minister accused the United States on Tuesday of trying to hinder the Iraqi investigation of Saddam Hussein by limiting his access to interrogators, and said "it seems there are lots of secrets they want to hide."

Classic Bait And Switch Enacted
As Downing Street Memos Called Possible Hoax

WMD American-Style
It's 60 Years Since Alamogordo

82 Iraqi MPs Demand Occupation Pullout
Eighty two Iraqi lawmakers from across the political spectrum have pressed for the withdrawal of the US-led occupation troops from their country.

The human cost of "Fortress Europe" :
asylum-seekers unfairly detained and unfairly expelled

Web users caught in midst of adware debate

The real problems with $50 oil
After oil prices peaked above US$58 a barrel in early April, and stayed around their current $50 range, the White House announced that it wanted oil to go back down to $25 a barrel. There is a common misconception in life that if only things could go back to the ways they were in the good old days, life would be good again like in the good old days. Unfortunately, good old days never return as good old days because what makes the old days good is often just bad memory.