"Analysts doubt Sudan rulers want to share power"

Zimbabwe: Business Struggle After SA Disconnects Harare for Unpaid Phone Bill
Doing business in Zimbabwe has become even more difficult after South Africa's telecommunications parastatal, Telkom, pulled the plug on services to the neighbouring country for outstanding debts.

Somalia, Kenya reach agreement
Somalia's transitional government and Kenya signed a framework agreement on Tuesday to work together on security and other issues, the first such agreement Somalia had signed with any country in 14 years.

Swiss ban 126 Zimbabweans
Switzerland on Tuesday increased to 126 the number of prominent Zimbabweans who face travel and finance restrictions, effective immediately, officials said.

Somali pirates cut ransom demand for hostages
Pirates holding 48 Asian fishermen hostage off Somalia have slashed their ransom demand, a human rights worker said on Tuesday

South Africa orders probe after controversial AIDS drug resurfaces
South Africa's Health Department ordered a probe into the resurfacing of controversial AIDS drug Virodene, a highly toxic industrial solvent which was slapped down by authorities in the late 90s.

Analysts doubt Sudan rulers want to share power
Sudan's ruling elite looks unwilling to share power with former southern rebels, despite agreeing to do so in a January peace deal to end Africa's longest civil war, analysts and diplomats say.

Genocide arrest of Rwanda general
An army general has been arrested at the order of a Rwandan local 'gacaca' court collecting evidence about the 1994 genocide, a court official says.

Ugandans can now access the Internet from cellphones

Call to end S African evictions
A South African land expert has said a recent study of evictions should be a "wake-up call" for the government to do more to protect black farm workers.

Experts warn of diminishing Nile waters
Experts have warned that a rapid increase in demand for livestock will put enormous pressure on water resources around the Nile basin in future.

Nigeria has male chauvinistic society, says leader
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday said male chauvinistic attitudes continue to prevail in his country during a meeting with Mexican lawmakers.

Uganda : New crops for a vanishing people
On the mountaintop overlooking the great East African Rift Valley, in the remote dense forest of Timu in northeastern Uganda’s Karamoja region, live the Ik community, a tiny ethnic group threatened by hunger, and also by its neighbours.

A Hurricane of Consequences
As it is beginning to appear that the death toll in southeastern Louisiana and southern Mississippi from Hurricane Katrina may surpass that of 9/11, once again questions are being raised regarding the Bush administration's distorted views as to what constitutes national security.

African Americans Complain that Black Hurricane Katrina Survivors Called "Refugees"
African American leaders complained that it was racist to describe black Hurricane Katrina survivors as "refugees," as a new discrimination debate rattled the relief effort. Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson rebuked the media for using the word, and also hit out at repeated use of footage of African American hurricane survivors looting shops in the anarchic days after the storm hit Monday.

Black Thieves, White Victims
African-Americans “loot” for weapons and frivolous items while Caucasians merely “find” staples needed to survive. This is the misleading message which much of the mainstream media would have the world believe about the behavior of Blacks and whites in the wake of the chaos created by Hurricane Katrina. One community is depicted as lawless, the other, as law-abiding.

Condoleezza Rice sent to rebut race bias charge
Stung by comments that his administration was slow to respond to Hurricane Katrina's ravages because most victims were black, President George W. Bush has drafted Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for a damage control operation.

Gender-based violence prevalent in Darfur, says UN report
Women and girls continue to experience sexual violence in the strife-torn western Sudanese region of Darfur and more needs to be done to prevent such crimes, a joint report by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and the UN Children’s Fund said.

Israel to accelerate West Bank barrier

Scientists guilty of 'hyping' benefits of gene research

The Media Discover the Poor

Fake sympathy and fake relief efforts