"Southern Africa fears famine"

Venezuela's Chavez Presents Land Titles to Indigenous Groups

Egypt leads the scramble for new permanent seats
Nigeria is furious with South Africa, and South Africa is trying to torpedo Egypt. Pakistan is busy trying to scuttle nuclear rival India, while Italy is flinging spaghetti at the Germans. China would like to build a great wall around Japan, and Argentina and Mexico have joined forces to samba all over Brazil.

'He's Garang's true successor'
Salva Kiir, who steps out of the shadows of John Garang as southern Sudan's leader to try to secure the future of a precarious peace in Africa's largest country, is a military commander with limited political experience.

Cash-strapped WFP wants SAfrica food for Mozambique

Southern Africa fears famine, U.N. lacks funds

Surge in Japanese aid to Africa
Japan's aid to Africa has surged this year as it tries to secure support from the continent for its cherished but increasingly distant goal of a permanent seat on the United Nations security council.

South Africa learning from Zimbabwe on land reforms
PRETORIA: South Africa can take a leaf from neighbouring Zimbabwe by injecting some "oomph" to quicken the pace of land reforms to redress apartheid-era imbalances, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said yesterday.

DA lashes out against Phumzile
Johannesburg - South Africa's main opposition party on Thursday blasted deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka for saying that Pretoria should emulate Zimbabwe's controversial land reforms, and branded her advice as a recipe for disaster.

Wifebeating 'normal' in parts of Africa
Wife-beating is entrenched, accepted, sometimes deadly and normal in sub-Saharan Africa, recent studies show.

South Africa to host International midwifery congress

Cuba Official Calls on U.S. to Free Agents

Venezuela-Uruguay sign 25 year oil deal

Castro reaches 79 on hot seat

Four Amendments & a Funeral

Inca Tax Records Were Tied Up in Knots, Study Says