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South Africa condemns assassination in Sri Lanka

South African Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Saturday condemned the assassination of her Sri Lankan counterpart Lakshman Kadirgamar on Friday. Dlamini-Zuma said in a statement that Kadirgamar's killing was meant to derail peace talks between the Sri Lankan government and rebel group, the Tamil Tigers. The rebel group has denied involvement in the assassination. "The government of South Africa condemns without equivocation the use of assassinations as a means to achieve political ends," the minister said in a statement. "Quite clearly the objective of this assassination was to derail the current peace process between the Sri Lankan government and the

Militant group claims Iraq helicopter crash

Militant group claims Iraq helicopter crash A militant group in Iraq has said it shot down a commercial helicopter contracted by a US company, killing 11 people on board, Xinhua reported. "The heroes of the Islamic Army in Iraq shot down a transport plane of the army of atheism," said a statement posted on the Internet. Besides, a three-minute video on the Internet showed the smouldering remains of the crashed helicopter and the charred bodies of the victims. The authenticity of the video could not be verified. A spokesman of the US Embassy in Iraq's capital Baghdad confirmed that the Bulgarian

Helping Africa help itself

WHEN Hastings in Sierra Leone appealed to Hastings East Sussex for help in 1999, the call was answered by local MP Michael Foster and by Loaf, a dynamic interdenominational group (Jeremy Clarkson, News Review, June 5). In one year, working with expat Sierra Leoneans based in London, we raised enough money to rebuild 15 bridges in Hastings SL which had been destroyed in the civil war. Robin Gray Hastings Twinning Association AID REALITIES: Bob Geldof hysterically condemns eBay while producing a nearly all-white concert and asks everyone to take the day off work to march on the G8 summit. More: timesonline.co.uk

Archbishop calls for Mugabe’s arrest

Outspoken Catholic Arch-Bishop of Bulawayo Pius Ncube, has called on the United Nations to arrest Robert Mugabe and put him on trial. Ncube compared Mugabe to Cambodian dictator Pol Pot whose reign of terror killed millions of people and said the so called operation clean up was forcing people into rural areas from their urban homes. He argued the fact that there is no food in the country meaning they were being condemned to certain death. In an interview with Channel 4 News at the Vatican, Ncube said the UN should arrest Mugabe and bring him to trial while also insisting

Southern Africa: Marburg Toll Rises as Neighbours Go on High Alert

Southern Africa: Marburg Toll Rises as Neighbours Go on High Alert Luanda Neighbouring countries placed their health services on high alert as the death toll in Angola's deadly Marburg epidemic climbed to 192. With the number of cases of the Ebola-like bug rising to 213, efforts in Angola's northern province of Uige, the epicentre of the outbreak, focused on tracking down what potentially amounts to scores of people who have been in close contact with victims. Media in the area reported that terrified townspeople threw stones at field workers trying to trace carriers of the disease, accusing them of killing people who had

Out of Africa

RICHARD E Grant would be the first to admit that he has had an unconventional career. Few British actors have worked with such an abundance of international filmmaking luminaries, including Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, Tim Burton and Jane Campion. Even fewer can boast a filmography that also includes Spice World: The Movie, The Little Vampire and Killing Dad. Golden greats rub shoulders with golden turkeys in a body of work that suggests a man restless for fresh challenges and game for absolutely anything. It is 20 years since Grant first burst on the film scene in Withnail

Leadership: The Problem with Africa

Ok, I admit it. I am going to break my cardinal rule and write a piece though I promised myself I was not going to do that until I graduate from school on the 18th of this month, June. I went to Ghana for sometime, and was very impressed with the way the country is heading. Development is everywhere. More on that later. People are now willing to take chances, and the population is gradually realizing that we hold our fate, future, and destiny in our own hands. My reason for writing this piece is twofold. The first is the perception

A challenge unheeded: Bush should have joined Blair’s Africa initiative

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has a powerful vision and a compelling plan for breaking the cycle of poverty, famine, disease and war that for decades has afflicted much of Africa. President Bush has a vision and a plan, too. The problem is that his have proven insufficient to meet the challenge. It's time for the president to acknowledge that reality and to support Blair's bold initiative to meet what he rightly calls "the fundamental moral challenge of our time." Yet Bush balked last week at Blair's face-to-face invitation to join Great Britain and other major industrial nations in doubling

Hyde Suggests More Global AIDS Funding Be Shifted To Groups Promoting Abstinence

Hyde Suggests More Global AIDS Funding Be Shifted To Groups Promoting Abstinence Rep Henry Hyde (R-Ill) on Wednesday urged the Bush administration to direct more resources from the... President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief to groups promoting abstinence and away from those promoting condom use as an HIV/AIDS prevention method, VOA News reports (Robinson, VOA News, 4/13). Hyde made the suggestion during a House International Relations Committee hearing on PEPFAR -- a five-year, $15 billion program that directs funding for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria to 15 focus countries (CQ HealthBeat, 4/13). The law (HR 1298) authorizing PEPFAR endorses the "ABC"