"Oil wealth urged to save Africa"

Africa: The Other Side of the Coin
THIS column can confirm that the war for Africa is everything but over. Evidence is aplenty and should not be withheld, as it will shed light on this war and the marginalisation of Africa as a whole.

Oil wealth urged to save Africa
The fabled wealth of the oil-rich Gulf states is to be targeted in an attempt to salvage a major debt relief deal for Africa ahead of the G8 summit in Gleneagles.

What Bush Owes Blair

Playing the Africa Card for ADB Chair
The arcane and increasingly heated battle for the chair of the African Development Bank (ADB) came to South Africa this week when Rwandan Minister of Finance Donald Kaberuka attended the World Economic Forum's Africa summit in Cape Town.

Locusts, hostilities worsen hunger crisis in Africa
From Africa's locust-devastated western dust bowls to the conflict-ridden central jungles and the AIDS-struck south, aid officials calling for urgent hunger relief say a lack of money is making it increasingly difficult to help the continent's most vulnerable.

Brits distrust Africa
The vast majority of Britons believe that sending billions of dollars in aid to Africa would be a waste of money at a time when their government is proposing such a plan, a poll showed on Saturday.

Africa Needs Better World Trade Regulations
The President of Tanzania, Benjamin Mkapa, said at the Graham Mackay Summit that Africa could increase exports, find markets and foment competitiveness if there were better regulations for world trade.

Bush, The Spoiled Man-Child
What causes the fall of empires?
Why, stubborn leaders who speak like toddlers and never admit mistakes
This is the hilarious thing. This is the appalling thing, still. How can this man remain so blindly, staggeringly resolute? How can he be so appallingly ignorant of fact, of truth, of evidence, of deep thought? In short, what the hell is wrong with George W. Bush?

Israeli troops admit 'eye for eye' killings
Israeli commandos killed eight Palestinian policemen in "eye for an eye" shootings three years ago that were ordered to avenge comrades slain in an ambush on an army checkpoint in the West Bank, a newspaper said yesterday.

Castro Strikes a Nerve
By aiming the spotlight on the criminal justice system in the U.S., which incarcerates more people per capita than any other developed nation, President Castro exposed a tender nerve for Washington.

Indigenous Uprising:
The Rebellion Grows in Bolivia
Rebellion is in the air in Latin America's poorest country, Bolivia. For weeks, indigenous-led protests have rocked the country and have brought the government to a near shutdown. The protests began as demonstrations calling for nationalization of the country's natural gas resources but that was just the spark for a much bigger war; a war over the rights of the country's majority indigenous population.

EU makes raids in banana and pineapple price-fixing inquiry
EU competition authorities have raided the offices of Europe's largest fruit distributors, it emerged yesterday, after Chiquita, the world's biggest producer of bananas, blew the whistle on an alleged cartel in the European banana and pineapple markets.

Hong Kong marks 16th anniversary
of China's Tiananmen Square crackdown
Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents were set to hold a candlelight vigil Saturday to mark the 16th anniversary of China's bloody crackdown on the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy demonstrations.