"Language As a Tool for Exclusion"

45 Zimbabwean Immigrants Flogged
SOME 45 Zimbabweans who illegally entered Botswana were each given three lashes in public at a customary law court in that country while six women claim to have been raped by soldiers before being deported. According to the Mmegi, a Botswana daily paper, the humiliating punishment was part of a joint operation by that country’s police and army to crackdown on illegal immigrants, mainly Zimbabweans working or selling wares in villages around Francistown.

Botswana Diamond Production Reaches 31.9 million Carats

Pope bids Burundi rebels reconsider violence
Vatican, Feb. 07 (CWNews.com) - Pope Benedict XVI hopes that the death of a Jesuit priest, killed by gunfire in Burundi on February 4, will prompt rebels to reconsider their violent approach.

SOUTH AFRICA: Winning the war against malaria, so far

White farmers set to lose land
Johannesburg - South Africa will from next month start large-scale expropriations of land from white farmers after years of fruitless compensation negotiations, a top official told AFP on Monday.

Brazilian president to visit Africa
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced on Monday that he will leave on Tuesday for a five-day visit to four African countries -- Algeria, Benin, Botswana and South Africa.

Lula to begin fifth trip to Africa
In his weekly radio broadcast this morning, Lula said that one of the main commitments of his administration has been to strengthen ties with the African continent.

Language As a Tool for Exclusion:
Reflections On Cameroon's National Bilingualism Day
February 3, 2006, was National Bilingualism Day in Cameroon. I didn't even know that such a day existed until I read about it in the Monday, January 30, 2006 online edition of the Government-owned daily, Cameroon Tribune.

NASA to use Cape Verde as weather study base

Thousands of Civilians Flee As Army Fights Bandits
At least 2,000 villagers in two provinces in the northwest of the Central African Republic are hiding in the bush without food while an equal number has fled to neighbouring Chad recently to avoid fighting between the army and bandits, local sources said.

Leaders seek to lessen Chad-Sudan tensions
Tripoli - African leaders are to seek to calm mounting border tensions between Chad and Sudan at a mini-summit in Libya later this week, the hosts said after a preparatory ministers' meeting on Monday.

Comoros: AU Pre-Election Mission Reports Back
As the Comoros prepare for upcoming elections that will test their new power-sharing arrangement, South Africa is gearing up to do its part in ensuring the April elections are free and fair.

Congo's Kabila asked to run for president
A leading political party has asked Congo's President Joseph Kabila to be their candidate for elections due by the middle of this year, the first move towards him officially joining the presidential race.

Annan outlines six options for Ethiopia-Eritrea border
UN chief Kofi Annan on Tuesday presented the Security Council with six options ranging from maintaining the status quo to a full withdrawal for the UN mission monitoring the tense Ethiopia-Eritrea border.

Ethiopia: Struggling to End Food Aid Dependency
There is a joke told in Ethiopia that encapsulates the country's struggle with food aid dependency. In it, two subsistence farmers are talking about the year's poor rains and the impact on their harvests. The older, his face and hands worn from a lifetime of hard work, turns to his younger friend and offers some advice: "It is not the rains in Ethiopia you need to worry about, but whether it rains in America or Canada."

UNICEF says drought worsening in Ethiopia
The current drought in some parts of Ethiopia is posing a danger on the lives of around 56,000 children, UN officials said here Tuesday.

Gabon's president sworn in for another term
frica's longest-serving leader, President Omar Bongo of Gabon, was sworn in Thursday for another term as nearly a dozen of the continent's current and former leaders looked on.

Gambian Political Parties Sign MOU
In what was described as a historic occasion and another step closer in enhancing peaceful and stable political environment in The Gambia, political parties in the country yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which should serve as a guide in the forthcoming presidential elections this year.

Ghana Can Cultivate Plant For Malaria Drug
Ghana has been identified as one of the countries suitable for the cultivation of artemisia, a plant good for manufacturing of artesunate, a drug for treating malaria.

Paradise found in New Guinea jungle
Scientists say they have found a "lost world" in an Indonesian mountain jungle that is home to dozens of exotic new species of birds, butterflies, frogs and plants.

Analysis: 'I had long given up on the thought of finding new species'
We were to encounter additional surprises - a "lost" bird of paradise that had long been forgotten, plus new species of butterflies, plants, frogs and mammals. These discoveries, and the lack of human presence in these mountains, told us one thing - this was an incredible biodiversity resource of global significance.

Lies That Sell, Lies That Kill

The Smoking Gun riding high on Frey expose

Australia wheat bosses 'paid £128m in Oil-for-Food bribes to Saddam'

Indigenous People Fight for Their Rights

Cave drawings reportedly 25,000 years old

Israel to Transfer $54M to Palestinians

US prepares to hack the world

Cuba Raises Flags Near American Mission

Saddam team 'gives up'

Lawyer: US turned down pleas to meet Saddam

Mexico to probe hotel that expelled Cubans