"Nile Longer Than Thought"

Meningitis outbreak kills 784 people in Burkina Faso

Sudan Denies Lending Support to Chad's Rebels
The Sudanese army on Saturday denied reports by Chadian media which said Sudan's military lent support to rebels who recently carried out a series of attacks in the eastern Chad, slamming the reports as "baseless and lack of evidences and witnesses."

The Criminalization of Christianity
Abdul Rahman, the Afghani man who dominated headlines last week, has been safely spirited away to Italy. Rahman had been imprisoned and threatened with a death sentence for apostasy (i.e. converting from Islam to Christianity).

Ethiopia says border row with Sudan getting due attention
Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin said says border row with Sudan getting due attention, mainly during the past six months.

Vaccine found effective against childhood meningitis
A vaccine already in use in an African country has been found effective against an important cause of childhood meningitis which causes more than 400,000 deaths each year in the developing world.

Kenya's record cocaine haul goes up in smoke

Liberia: Taylor's Trial-No Better Place than Sierra Leone
No Better Place than Sierra Leone, No Better Place than Africa. The time has finally arrived for the former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor to face Justice That he stripped away from many people.

Son of Liberia warlord Taylor arrested in US

Pentagon weighs helping Libya destroy arms
Pentagon specialists made an unannounced visit to Libya in January to see what it would take to help Libya destroy its tons of chemical weapons, a process that could cost $100 million.

Madagascar cuts prison term for all prisoners
Madagascan President Marc Ravalomana has decided to grant all prisoners a jail term reduction of 4 months, Madagascan media reported on Thursday. But the prison term reduction far from satisfies the requests of political prisoners, who demand amnesty, the report said.

Niger Delta: Taming The Violence
More and more Nigerians demand for establishment of a Marshall Plan for the development of the Niger Delta region, as a way out of the cycle of violence that has enveloped the area.

World Bank approves anti-bird flu loan to Nigeria
The World Bank has approved a credit of 50 million U.S. dollars to support Nigeria's efforts to deal with the deadly bird flu, according to a bank statement obtained on Saturday.

NZ team finds new source of Nile in Rwanda
RWANDA: Surviving a rebel attack and braving crocodile-infested waters, a group of explorers – including two New Zealanders – has completed an 80-day voyage up the world's longest river reaching what they say is the source of the Nile.

Nile Longer Than Thought
An expedition team with two New Zealanders say they have proven the world's longest river, the Nile, is 107 kilometres longer than previously thought.

Africans risk death at sea for new life abroad
Mauritania becomes a gateway to Europe

Police seized 8.3 tons of marijuana in Senegal
Senegalese police and customs officers have seized 8.3 tons of marijuana at the port of Dakar, Interior Minister Ousmane Ngom said Friday.

UN sounds Somalia famine alarm
More than 10,000 people could soon die from famine every month in Somalia if a severe drought persists, according to UN aid agencies.

S Africa 'can play Mid-East role'
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said that South Africa can play a productive role in the Middle East peace process.

UN launches "Go To School" campaign in southern Sudan
The UN-backed massive campaign to enable hundreds of thousands of children go to school in southern Sudan this year was launched Saturday in Juba, the capital of southern Sudan.

21 feared dead as boat capsizes in Tanzania
Twenty-one people, mostly women, were feared dead as the boat they were traveling in capsized in Lake Victoria in northwestern Tanzania.

UN deplores northern Uganda conflict
The desperate situation in war-torn northern Uganda is an example of the worst form of terrorism, according to the UN's humanitarian relief co-ordinator.

King vows Western Sahara to stay Moroccan

PanAfrica: Africa Should Learn From Latin America
AFRICA should learn from Latin America and introduce revolutionary political parties to achieve development, South African Communist Party general secretary Dr Blade Nzimande has said.

EU gives Zambia K8 billion
The European Commission (EU) has given Zambia K8.8 billion to mitigate the effects of drought and HIV/AIDS on vulnerable people in Southern and Western Provinces.

Zim asks for oil on 'generous terms'
President Robert Mugabe's government, which is running on empty, has confirmed that it has asked visiting Equatorial Guinea president Teodoro Obiang Nguema for desperately-needed oil to get the economy turning again.

Zimbabwe: Equatorial Guinea Leader's Visit Strengthens Ties
THE visit by the Equatorial Guinea President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo affords his country and Zimbabwe an opportunity to create stronger bonds of solidarity, friendship and co-operation, President Mugabe has said.

Soldiers flee to Canada to avoid Iraq duty

The Other War: A Report from Colombia

The slums in the world's teeming cities need an urgent solution

Time to Talk War Crimes

Housing Cuts for the Poor, Tax Cuts for the Rich

To ease traffic, Mo. may drive on left

Documents Trace KBR Billing Problems

Republicanizing the Race Card

Venezuela Takes on Exxon Mobil in Oil Play

New Mexico aims to save ancient footprints

Atom Breaks Rules, Beats Friction

US debt clock running out of time, space

Security hole digs into Microsoft

Bush's Top 10 'Vietnam' Mistakes

Haiti and Human Rights Watch

From Guatemala to Colombia
The Regional Integration of Gold and Bullets

McKinney: Race sparked tiff with police

Can President Alfredo Palacio Survive Ecuador's Indigenous Uprising?

The Ghost of George Wallace:
Immigration and White Racism

US Census Bureau to Hide Poverty

British companies draw huge profits from occupied Iraq