Kenya bans 'leaky' condom brand
BBC News Online
Officials ordered lab tests on all imported condoms after a TV expose
Kenya has banned a brand of condoms weeks after Zambia did the same...
Australia will consider easing a ban on high-level contacts with Zimbabwe, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said on Tuesday, adding it was too soon to end targeted sanctions against President Robert...
By PAUL SCHEMM, Associated Press Writer Paul Schemm, Associated Press Writer – 25 mins ago
CAIRO – Osama bin Laden said in a new audiotape that President Barack Obama's strategy in...
Iran nuclear plans 'revealed' on Web site!
Online news site publishes what it says are Iran's nuclear proposals
The proposals have not officially been released to the public and
Document says...
Victims' Families Tell Their Stories Following Nato Airstrike In Afghanistan
'I took some flesh home and called it my son.'
The Guardian interviews 11 villagers
At first light last Friday, in...
There is a piece I have read from the book "International Politics, Power and Purpose in Global Affairs" by Paul D'Anieri page 125. I ask every one to read with an open mind. Let me first start by...
The East African Community Secretariat is launching a series of consultations in the Partner States from 7 to 25 September 2009 on the establishment of the East African Monetary Union (EAMU). The...
A German girl who went to see her biological father in South Africa was allegedly held captive for two months as a sex slave
BY DONALD HAMER
FIRST POSTED JULY 6, 2009
AGerman girl's search...
SAN'A, Yemen - A 12-year-old Yemeni child-bride died after struggling for three days in labor to give birth, a local human rights organization said Saturday.
Fawziya Abdullah Youssef died of...
..kwanza walikuwa na utawala wa mabavu chini ya Kamuzu Banda.
..lakini kitu cha kupigiwa mfano waliendesha harakati za kisiasa za kumtoa Banda bila kulazimisha civil war.
..pia wameendesha...
SEX CRIMES AND THE VATICAN
A secret document which sets out a procedure for dealing with child sex abuse scandals within the Catholic Church is examined by Panorama.
This BBC documentary...
President Kikwete endorses biography on Mwanawasa
Tanzanian president Jakaya Kikwete.
By SUNDAY NATION Correspondent in LUSAKA
Posted Saturday, September 5 2009 at 18:24
A biography...
Israeli President Peres collapses
Shimon Peres became president in 2007
Israeli President Shimon Peres collapsed during a ceremony in Tel Aviv and briefly lost consciousness.
Haaretz...
SAS 'Training Libyan Military'
It has been alleged that the SAS has been training Libyan special forces, despite Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime having supplied arms to the IRA.
Britain's...
Mugabe welcomes EU with 'open arms'
President Robert Mugabe has told the first top-level European Union delegation to visit Zimbabwe in seven years he hopes for successful talks.
Mugabe...
Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, and the American people:
When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression...
This report has addressed the issue of climate and development challenges head-on and provides some answers to the issue whether development can be used as a "scapegoat" for developing countries'...
Cuban revolutionary Almeida dies
Almeida (top right) was among the victorious revolutionaries in 1959
One of the original protagonists of the Cuban revolution, Juan Almeida Bosque, has died...
Rwanda Led All Nations in Business Reforms, World Bank Says
By Sandrine Rastello
Sept. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Rwanda, the African nation torn apart by genocide in 1994, made more...
How marijuana became legal
Irv Rosenfeld is one of four U.S. citizens who get their medical marijuana from the federal government.
By Roger Parloff, senior editor.
(Fortune Magazine) --...