"Timbuktu Removed from Endangered List"

WFP ultimatum over Somali ship
The UN food agency has warned it will stop shipments to central Somalia for 10 years if one of its ships hijacked by pirates is not returned in 48 hours.

Timbuktu Removed from Endangered List
The city became the centre of African intellectual prowess in the 15th-16th centuries and was removed from the endangered list during the committee's meeting in Durban yesterday, due to Mali's initiatives to preserve its rich history. These sites of learning produced the historic Mali manuscripts that document traditional medicine, optics, astronomy, mathematics, law judgments and commercial transactions among others, during the 13th to 19th centuries.

Africa Must Put Its Own Languages On the Internet
Africans who wish to see their own languages on the internet have to make a concerted effort to develop the necessary applications. They should not wait for donor support to finance the use of local languages through the use of Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs).

ANC split on Mbeki's future role
South Africa's ruling ANC is split on whether President Thabo Mbeki should be allowed to remain party leader after he steps down as national president.

G8 debt deal under threat at IMF
A number of European governments are apparently having second thoughts about proposals for debt relief which formed a key part of the help world leaders offered to Africa at last week's summit.

White Supremacy is Incompatible with Civilization
Trapped up in the “white race” corral all the time, most Americans are not only oblivious to what’s happening in the world outside their own segregated block, but also, and for the same reason, prone to seeing everything in monoliths: good and evil; white and black; Arab and Jew; Christian and Muslim; the U.S. and the world; “us” vs. “them.” The only monolith they manage to skip over is the rich vs. the poor.

Faked Research Results on Rise?
Charges of scientific misconduct are increasing in the United States, up 50 percent from 2003. Pressure to publish and competition for grant money push some scientists to falsify data, fabricate patients and plagiarize.

Palestinian civilians die in Gaza battle
Two Palestinian bystanders have been killed and more than a dozen people wounded in gunbattles between Palestinian security forces and resistance factions, hospital sources said

Africa’s debt crisis calls for reparations
Did this G-8 summit do justice by the African people? Will an additional $5 billion for the next the 10 years help to lift millions out of impoverishment and destitution? Will the cancellation of debt of one-third of the African countries help their devastated economies rebound? The answers to all these questions is: absolutely not!

Tanzania looks beyond free schooling
Tanzania has made great strides towards providing free education for all of the country's primary school children - one of the UN's Millennium Development Goals. But there are signs that this is not helping the long-term development of the majority of the country's children.

The Shackles of Slavery in Niger

South Africa stands by Zim - Mugabe

Success is sweet for Namibian grape farmers

Namibian president lashes out at De Beers

Paris Club Gives Looters' Names to Obasanjo

Lest We Forget: These Were "Blair's Bombs"

Aristide in Exile

Tutu says 'western leaders' create terrorists

'World is disgusted by US'