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 A report released by the United Nations notes that the
number of people dying from cholera in Zimbabwe has topped 4,000, while 89,000
total cases of the disease have been reported since the outbreak began in August
last year.
However, the report noted that the 2,151 new cases
identified last week were down from 8,000 per week at...
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Johannesburg - The world's third-biggest platinum producer Lonmin announced plans Tuesday to lay off up to 5,500 workers at two operations in South Africa.
Production of platinum, a precious metal used in car manufacturing and jewellery, has been severely affected by the global downturn.
Lonmin's announcement follows the...
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Johannesburg - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was expected in South Africa Tuesday on the first leg of a five-nation African tour that will focus on the victims of conflict, climate change and UN reform, among other issues.
Ban's visit to South Africa is his first to the country as UN chief. He is scheduled to be met on arrival...
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Harare - The charges against Zimbabwean ministerial appointee Roy Bennett, who was arrested last week as a new coalition government was being sworn in, have been changed for a third time, his lawyer said Tuesday.
The 52-year-old Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) politician now faces charges of possessing weapons for the purposes of...
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Nairobi - A United Nations expert on extrajudicial and summary executions on Monday begins a ten-day mission to investigate the killings that followed disputed December 2007 elections in Kenya, the UN said.
Philip Alston, who was invited by the Kenyan government, is to visit some of the hotspots of violence, including the capital...
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Nairobi - Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan on Friday hinted he would send the names of politicians and businessmen accused of orchestrating Kenya's post-election violence to The Hague after failed attempts to set up a local tribunal.
Justice Philip Waki, who headed a probe into the violence, gave Kenya until March 1 to create a...
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Harare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who declared his last cabinet "the worst in history," reappointed many of its members to a new power-sharing government that is due to be sworn in later Friday.
The state-controlled Herald newspaper reported that 20 of Mugabe's 21 choices for minister and deputy ministers were...
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Antananarivo, Madagascar - Tourism industry officials in Madagascar are growing increasingly concerned about the effects of politcally motivated violence that has kept the island's capital Antananarivo in its grasp, media reports said Thursday.
"Reservations until and including March have been cancelled almost completely....
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Cairo - Archaeologists in Egypt discovered a "perfectly preserved" mummy inside a 2,600-year-old lime sarcophagus north of Cairo on Wednesday, Egypt's antiquities authority said.
Scientists said they believed the mummy, one of 30 discovered in a previously forgotten tomb near the step pyramid of Saqqara, could have been a...
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Johannesburg - South African President Kgalema Motlanthe warned Friday that the global financial crisis posed a serious threat to jobs in Africa's largest economy, where manufacturing and mining have shed thousands of jobs in recent months.
Delivering the president's annual State of the Nation speech at the opening of parliament in...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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