"How the G8 lied"

IMF Urges Mugabe to Save Economy
AS IT began emergency consultations in Harare yesterday, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) fact-finding mission urged the Zimbabwe government to take urgent measures to save the country's economy from collapse, sources said.

Tanzania: Election Campaigns Kick Off
Presidential election campaigns kicked off in Tanzania on Sunday, with political leaders promising to wrench the east African nation out of grinding poverty, as well as fight graft and enhance the status of women in society.

State moves to take control of first farm redistributed after apartheid
Nearly a decade after the Elandskloof farm near Citrusdal became the first land in South Africa to be redistributed after the end of apartheid, the government wants its administration taken out of public hands.

How the G8 lied to the world on aid
The G8 agreed to increase aid from rich countries by $48bn a year by 2010. When Tony Blair announced this to parliament, he said that "in addition ... we agreed to cancel 100% of the multilateral debts" of the most indebted countries. He also stated that aid would come with no conditions attached. These were big claims, all of which can now be shown to be false.

Libya says to be taken off U.S. terrorism list
Libya expects the United States to remove it from Washington's list of sponsors of terrorism this year to seal their rapprochement after Tripoli abandoned a program of prohibited weapons, the Libyan leader's son said, Reuters reported.

Intrusion Endangers Tsunami-Hit Andaman's Stone Age Aborigines

Intrusion into reserved forests by Indian settlers is posing a threat to reclusive Stone Age aborigines who survived the tsunamis that hit the Andaman island chain last December, environmentalists say.

Scores of Afro-Colombians continue to flee homes in Chocó province
Scores of Afro-Colombians continued to flee their homes last week, pushing to nearly 1,300 the number of people displaced amid fears of an outbreak of fighting between armed groups in the region.

Remembering slavery
Do you remember the days of slavery? So goes the chant sung so poignantly and eloquently by reggae artiste Burning Spear.

Rejecting Israeli apartheid
There has been a media circus fed by a huge Israeli-government public-relations effort to drum up sympathy for the "painful" relocation of Jewish settlers from Gaza. But who are these settlers, and why were they brought there in the first place? Is Israel really leaving Gaza, or merely switching to occupying it from outside, rather than inside? Will Gaza become a large open-air prison, with its population held hostage as Israel controls its air space, natural resources, and access?

Gaza Stripped But the Occupation Remains
Although Israeli Forces withdrew settlers from Gaza the military occupation of Palestinians continues. Despite U.S. mainstream media reports that the 38-year-occupation of Palestinians within Gaza has "ended," the Israeli military still controls water, the Palestinians' passage through checkpoints and air space.

Washington worried by Venezuela, Cuban socialism
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez' visit to Cuba this weekend, to weld his alliance with President Fidel Castro's revolution, is keeping alive a socialist threat in Latin America as far as Washington is concerned.

US – Chief culprit in Africa’s problems
THE United States’ role in destabilising Africa so as to plunder its resources continues to be exposed.

Inequality widens under Blair
Tony Blair's claims to have extended "social justice" were undermined last night by official figures showing the gap between rich and poor has widened by £90 a week since Labour came to power.

Women bear the brunt of hardships and food shortages