"A Mixed Verdict for Commission's Report"

Even surrender is not an option
We did not want to fight. We are a peaceful people. But when the USA is starving children all over the world, by putting countries into huge debt and then giving back in charity only a fraction of what they stole, and when the USA is bombing people all over the world, and killing innocent people with sanctions and depleted uranium, then they have pushed us into a corner and we must defend the world and its children from USA oppression.

U.K. Treasury's Boateng to Take Job in South Africa
U.K. Treasury minister Paul Boateng will step down after the next election to become the nation's ambassador to South Africa in Pretoria, the Foreign Office said.

Development-Africa: A Mixed Verdict for Commission's Report
A "decisive first step" towards making poverty in Africa history, an "exercise to cover up the Iraq war": reactions to the report issued last week by Britain's Commission for Africa have been many and varied.

Zimbabwe Facing Another Drought
With only a few weeks to the end of this year's rainy season, some Southern African countries have received only a fraction of their usual rainfall which is particularly bad news for Zimbabwe.

Africa illegal ivory trade growing
Poachers are killing between 6,000 and 12,000 elephants a year to supply illegal ivory markets in Sudan -- among the largest in the world -- to meet growing Chinese demand, experts said Monday.

Learn from Zim land reform, SA told
South Africa has to make space for policy-making structures to avoid political unrest over land reform, the executive director of the African Institute of Agrarian studies said on Monday.

Learn from Zimbabwe how hostile the white community is when they have to pay up.

Johannesburg - a city of risk and opportunity
Fresh off the bus at Park Station, one of the greatest challenges facing any newcomer to Johannesburg, South Africa's economic hub, is accommodation.

Researchers say breast cancer in Africa
may provide clues to the disease in African-Americans
A new review finds similarities between the clinical presentation and course of breast cancer in Africans and African-Americans, suggesting that genetic factors may play a significant role in the racial differences encountered in the epidemiology of breast cancer in America.

Tony Blair is not learning his lesson
The democracy and freedom that President Bush and his colleague Tony Blair are exporting to the Arab nation means servitude to the Anglo-Saxon-Zionist Imperialism. This servitude was accepted by the Arab rulers in order to maintain themselves in power and to protect themselves from the rage and anger of the people who have chosen the freedom and democracy through the struggle on the road of unity of the homeland.

Right Way To Learn
Democracy and human rights will soon be part of the curriculum at Bahrain's schools.

Mubarak: Democracy Can't Come From Outside
Democratic reform in the Arab world cannot be imposed from the outside, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Sunday in an apparent rebuke of U.S.-led efforts to speed up change in the region.

Baghdad becomes hostile land for Arab expatriates

Drumbeat din forces tax arrears pay-up
Tax defaulters in an Andhra Pradesh town are being forced to face the music with authorities hiring drummers to play non-stop outside their homes until they pay up.

The Five Cuban Political Prisoners And International Press Censorship
Why is the international press not discussing the case of the five Cuban political prisoners, which is in fact one of the greatest political and legal scandals of the century? How is it possible that a scandal of record-breaking sensationalism, adaptable to any kind of media coverage by its political and legal content, has been censored by the vast majority of media outlets in the west? How is it possible that, in the very hour of the "global war against terrorism", five young Cubans who risked their lives to prevent terrorist acts from being carried out against their country, were arrested, mistreated, and condemned to life imprisonment in the United States without this being mentioned by the media transnationals?

The Spoils of War
Halliburton subsidiary KBR got $12 billion worth of exclusive contracts for work in Iraq. But even more shocking is how KBR spent some of the money. Former U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official Bunnatine Greenhouse is blowing the whistle on the Dick Cheney–linked company's profits of war

They shoot reporters, don't they?
The killing of Italian intelligence officer Nicola Calipari by US occupation forces in Iraq is another twist in the diabolical tactics employed by members of the occupation forces in manipulating the veracity of their adventurism in this immoral crusade.

U.S. bans Sinn Fein from fundraising
LONDON (Reuters) - Sinn Fein, the political ally of the IRA, has been banned from fundraising in the United States, The Times has reported, citing diplomatic sources.
It said the order, passed to Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams via U.S. State Department channels, followed White House anger over accusations the IRA was continuing criminal activity.