"Zimbabwe says film a CIA plot"

Mbeki bid to clear his name of Zuma conspiracy allegations
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki will go into battle against supporters of fired Deputy President Jacob Zuma this week when he tries to persuade the ANC's national executive committee to launch a commission of inquiry into the affair.

Kenyan minister challenges UK ban
A senior member of the Kenyan government who was banned from entering the United Kingdom is challenging the decision in the High Court in London.

Sudanese President vows to end Darfur conflict
Ahead of the resumption of Darfur peace talks in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, 15 September, Sudanese President Omar Hassan el-Bashir has reaffirmed the commitment of the Khartoum government to end the conflict in his country’s western region.

AU denounces Sudanese rebel group for incompliance with cease-fire
The African Union (AU) on Saturday lashed out at Darfur’s main rebel group, the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA), for incompliance with a cease-fire deal in the troubled region. The AU special representative to Sudan "condemns not only the provocative banditry" of the SLA but also its refusal to cooperate with the AU’s mediation, the AU said in a statement.

Zimbabwe says film a CIA plot
Zimbabwe on Sunday said a recent Hollywood film starring Nicole Kidman was a “CIA-sponsored” campaign targeting President Robert Mugabe and vowed to fight the “cultural and psychological” onslaught on Harare.

Nigeria leader backs bribe probe
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has agreed to be investigated by the country's anti-corruption body after a governor accused him of taking bribes.

Illegal immigrants struggle to make a home in SA
A Zimbabwean fruit seller watches a group of Nigerian men play a game of soccer on a street in the Johannesburg suburb of Hillbrow as a police van drives b

Zimbabwe: Contract row deepens
he contract crisis in Zimbabwe cricket deepened today when Zimbabwe Cricket Players Association rubbished the claim of Zimbabwe Cricket that the contracts had been withdrawn from three white cricketers because they were asking a great deal of money.

The dispossessed of New Orleans tell of their medieval nightmare
"I do think the nation would be responding differently if they were white elderly and white babies actually dying on the street and being covered with newspapers and shrouds and being left there.

Budget cuts delayed New Orleans flood control work
Bush administration funding cuts forced federal engineers to delay improvements on the levees, floodgates and pumping stations that failed to protect New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters, agency documents showed on Thursday.

Black fury at Bush over rescue delay
Civil rights leaders, church officials and rap stars have united in ferocious criticism of President George Bush's attitude towards the tens of thousands of black people still trying to escape the hell of New Orleans.

Race question hangs over disaster
The ever-sensitive question of race in the United States has exploded into the furious debate over the government's handling of the disaster unfolding in New Orleans.

Rice defends Bush's response
Secretary of state Condoleezza Rice defended President George W Bush on Sunday against charges that the government's sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina showed racial insensitivity.

Criminal Plot Underway in the New Orleans Swamp
It is mighty suspicious the New Orleans "refugees" (as the corporate media call the Americans removed from the disease-ridden swamp left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina) are being relocated far and wide. Most of them will probably never return and will end up in ghettoes in Baton Rouge, Houston, and elsewhere (it appears Baton Rouge is being groomed as an expansive slum, since the rebuilt New Orleans will be a casino and tourist destination with time-share condos and luxury housing).

Australia expresses frustration at lack of access to New Orleans
The Australian government criticised a US ban on consular officials entering hurricane-stricken New Orleans Sunday, after being embarrassed when media crews rescued its stranded citizens while diplomats awaited access to the disaster zone.

Venezuela Expropriates
In his weekly Alo Presidente TV programme, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez announced that some 136 closed factories are being surveyed with the aim of expropriating them. “This is like the case of idle land. In the same way that we cannot allow idle land we cannot allow it with companies”.