Africa news round-up – 11.4.08 The Guardian Africa news round-up – 11.4.08 | Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, today failed to sign a peace agreement with the Ugandan government, writes Liz Ford in her weekly round-up of news from Africa , Friday April 11 2008 About this article | Close This article was first published on o...
Delta pulls up on flights to Africa The Business Review | High jet fuel prices and the uncertain political climate rocking Africa have forced Delta Air Lines Inc. to either cancel or postpone planned flights to three top African cities. | The scaling back comes on the heels of a splashy announcement in December that Delta would be the first major U.S. ai...
Abbas sends forces to north West Bank in security push International Herald Tribune | : Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's security forces began deploying to the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Saturday for a law-and-order campaign meant to show the government is laying the ground for statehood. | Jeeps and buses carrying up ...
ISRAEL-OPT: West Bank farmers face ruin after trees uprooted IRINnews web | Photo: Shabtai Gold/IRIN JEET, WEST BANK,, 27 April 2008 (IRIN) - It was difficult for 87-year-old Jamil Khader to discover that nearly all of the 1,400 olive trees his extended family planted in February had suddenly gone missing, having been ...
Rights Groups Press New Mining Code in West Africa Voa News | Throughout West Africa gold, bauxite, uranium and other lucrative minerals are being extracted from the land, but local communities benefit little or in many cases lose out. Human-rights and development experts at a recent meeting in the Senegalese...
Rights Abuses Without West's Support Is a Crime Arab News | Seumas Milne, The Guardian | There is no question that the struggle over land and power in Zimbabwe has brought the country to a grim pass. Nearly a decade after the takeover of white-owned farms and the rupture with the West, economic breakdown, h...
Is South Africa too soft on criminals? Independent online Submit your comment | By Chiara Carter | ANC leader Jacob Zuma and top ANC business magnate Tokyo Sexwale on Saturday told a group of Afrikaans businessmen that crime was the country's declared enemy and slammed South Africa's laws for seeming "user-...
Teen 'murdered' 12 people News24 | Rio De Janeiro - Police on Friday said they were investigating a 16-year-old boy's claim that he had murdered 12 people since November. | The teen was arrested last week on suspicion of homicide and made the startling killing-spree claim during int...
Brazilian teen says he murdered 12 people Khaleej Times | RIO DE JANEIRO - Police on Friday said they were investigating a 16-year-old boy's claim that he has murdered 12 people since November. | The teen was arrested last week on suspicion of homicide and made the startling killing-spree claim during int...
Paving the Way to Prosperity in Africa Gallup | WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Gallup Polls conducted in 35 African countries reveal that a regional median of just 37% of citizens are satisfied with their roads and highways. | These data provide a mandate for improvement for African transport and infrastructure ministers, who gathered in Algiers in late April to discuss the state of the transportation se...
Food bill comes in for liberalization Asia Times | By Aileen Kwa GENEVA - The high food prices that have sparked riots in parts of the developing world from Indonesia, India and Bangladesh to Cameroon, Ivory Coast and Haiti should come as no surprise. They are only the latest in a series of events many developing countries have suffered as a result of opening their borders and neglecting domestic...
