Africa

Zimbabwe government to shift army from trouble-torn diamond mines

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

ZIMBABWE has promised to withdraw its soldiers from diamond fields in the east, an official newspaper reported yesterday – a week after a rights group alleged the military was

• Zimbabwe vows to pull troops out of diamond fields - Arizona Republic
• Zim vows to pull troops out of diamond fields - Mail & Guardian
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Botswana differs with AU over Bashir

Sudan Watch (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

Botswana yesterday distanced itself from a decision by African leaders to ignore the International Criminal Court order to extradite Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the foreign ministry said. “The Government of Botswana does not agree with this decision and wishes to reaffirm its position that as a State Party to the Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court (ICC) it has...

• Botswana differs with AU summit - IOL
• African move on Bashir dismissed - BBC News
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Rob Crilly’s book 'Saving Darfur: Everyone’s Favourite African War' will be published by Reportage Press in November

Sudan Watch (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

From the Irish Times , Monday, July 6, 2009 War crimes move upped level of risk for aid workers By ROB CRILLY in Nairobi, Kenya Shadowy armed groups with shifting aims make life in Darfur hazardous DARFUR IS a hostile land. A dry, desiccated country awash with guns and tribal enmities, it has always carried risks for the thousands of aid workers bringing food, water and medicine to the region’s...

Sudanese government joins effort to free aid workers

The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

THE SUDANESE government says it is doing everything in its power to secure the release of a Dublin aid worker and her Ugandan colleague, both of whom worked for Irish aid agency Goal, after they were kidnapped in Darfur last week.

• Efforts to free Irish woman - ireland.com

Keeping hope alive in Zimbabwe no easy task despite new unity government

The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

INSIDE ZIMBABWE: BILL CORCORANrevisits a township outside Harare to see what has happened since the cholera epidemic ravaged the country and the opposition joined an inclusive government in February

War crimes move upped level of risk for aid workers

The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Shadowy armed groups with shifting aims make life in Darfur hazardous

Kidnapped worker was about to pay visit home

The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

SHARON COMMINS was due to return to Dublin for a holiday in the coming weeks after an 18-month stint as a project manager for Goal in Darfur – one of the charity’s toughest postings.

David Beckham - Beckhams Exotic Anniversary Celebrations

Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

VICTORIA and DAVID BECKHAM celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary on Saturday (04Jul09) with a tropical vacation in the Seychelles.The celebrity couple wed in Ireland on...

Early flooding brings devastation

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

The Red Cross warns that global warming will lead to more disasters along the Zambezi river basin The ceremony is called Kuomboka , meaning "moving out of the water". Every year the king of the Lozi people journeys from the flooded plains to higher ground. Thousands gather to dance, feast and watch the royal barge rowed by dozens of oarsmen beneath a giant replica elephant. The Kuomboka...

War-torn countries to benefit from £8bn aid policy shift

Times Online (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Fragile and war-torn countries such as Sudan, Somalia and Afghanistan are to be placed at the heart of Britain’s £8 billion aid programme in a striking policy shift, The Times has learnt.

Fighting in Mogadishu intensifies

PWW Daily Online (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Shelling between Somali rebels and government forces near the presidential palace have killed at least 12 people. Rebels who want to install an Islamic state in the east African country and the transitional government blamed each other for instigating the violence.

• Fighting in Somali kills 12 - IOL
• Somali fighting kills at least 12 in Mogadishu - Boston Globe
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Uganda: Gorillas in the Mist

Round My World (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

The climax of any Uganda safari is undoubtedly tracking the largest living primate on the planet, the endangered Mountain gorilla, through some of the most impenetrable jungle in the world - the last remaining habitat ...

No safe haven for near-extinct antelope

Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

By Matt Walker, Editor, Earth News Hopes are dashed that some of the few remaining hirola antelope have managed to colonise new, safer territory. Fleeting sightings of the world's rarest antelope, the hirola, in a new safe haven are cases of mistaken identity, a survey has found. That has dashed hopes that some of the last hirola have managed to colonise a new territory where they would be less vulnerable...

• No safe haven for rarest antelope - Cryptozoology Online: Daily News
• No safe haven for rarest antelope - the optimum population trust blog

Rick Warren calls on Muslims and Christians to work together

Joels Trumpet (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

I am likely going to take some shots on this one from both sides. While Warren has received tons of criticism on this, I am somewhat in agreement with some of his sentiments. Years ago, I while in college, I used to host a weekly cook-out in my city for the homeless. [...]

Day 70 - July 5 Tregonhawke to Plymouth

Songline On Sea (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

We were up early this morning, packed up and dispensed with breakfast largely because we didn't have any. Three miles down the road we had coffee at Cawsand where Martin left on the 11am ferry as planned. He has been excellent company for 6 days and an excellent walker who exercises usually at Harrow-on-the-Hill at lunchtime and daily Yoga. I readjusted to being on my own again by dawdling my way along...

Marula Oil and the Fight Against Poverty in Rural Swaziland

tailte | 22/04/2009

Generations of African rural communities have used locally grown plant extracts and oils for nutritional, medicinal and cosmetic purposes. One such plant product is marula oil, which is extracted from the fruit kernels of the marula tree, native to southern Africa. Previously unheard of outside of Africa, the oil is becoming increasingly popular because of its superb antioxidant, nourishing and moisturising

Watch Bangladesh vs Zimbabwe 3rd ODI Live Scorecard Online Streaming Free

kahona_pyaar_hai | 23/01/2009

Sri Lanka will play two Tests against Bangladesh in December followed by a triangular ODI tournament also involving Zimbabwe, who will then play the hosts in a separate three-match one-day series. Sri Lanka arrive in Dhaka on December 19 and the first Test starts on Boxing Day. The venue for the second Test, starting on January 3, is Chittagong. Click to Watch Match Live - 1 Click to Watch Match Live

• Bangladesh vs Zimbabwe 3rd ODI - January 23 - kahona_pyaar_hai

Bangladesh vs Zimbabwe 3rd ODI - January 23

kahona_pyaar_hai | 23/01/2009

Sri Lanka will play two Tests against Bangladesh in December followed by a triangular ODI tournament also involving Zimbabwe, who will then play the hosts in a separate three-match one-day series. Sri Lanka arrive in Dhaka on December 19 and the first Test starts on Boxing Day. The venue for the second Test, starting on January 3, is Chittagong. Click to Watch Match Live - 1 Click to Watch Match Live