Apartheid Reparations
Wednesday December 24, 2003
As promised several years ago by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) reparations are now being paid out to the victims of Apartheid. Read this report by BBC World News.
Weapons of mass distruction in Libya
Sunday December 21, 2003
Having achieved an agreement over Libya’s responsibility in the Lockerbie bombing, Colonel Gadafy has announced Libya’s intention to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction. Read more about this startling revelation ... Read More
Rail Tunnel Between Morocco and Spain
Monday December 15, 2003
Morocco and Spain are to build a tunnel between them underneath the Mediterranean Sea, reports BBC News. The 39-kilometre long rail tunnel will run from Punta Malabata near Tangiers to ... Read More
Die-hard whites or pioneering Afrikaners?
Thursday December 11, 2003
The Independent newspaper, UK, reports on a visit by Ludger Schadomsky to Orania – an attempt to establish a 'whites-only' homeland in South Africa's Karoo desert.
Volunteering in Africa with Medecins Sans Frontieres
Monday December 8, 2003
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) was established in the early 1970s by a group of French doctors during the Biafra War; 30 years later there doesn't seem to be a 'hotspot' ... Read More
Mugabe Withdraws Zimbabwe from Commonwealth
Monday December 8, 2003
Following the extension of the suspension of Zimbabwe from the Commonwealth at the organisation's recent meeting in Nigeria, President Mugabe has, according to reports on BBC News, withdrawn his country ... Read More
This week in African history #49
Monday December 8, 2003
8 – 14 DecemberTanganyika (now Tanzania) and Kenya gain independence from Britain, the Aswan Dam is completed, and Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli is the first black African to win the ... Read More
Rwandans Jailed for Church Massacre
Wednesday December 3, 2003
Eighteen Rwandans involved in the massacre of some 20,000 people sheltering in a Roman Catholic Church during the 1994 genocide have been sentenced to jail, reports the BBC News. ... Read More
New African Diaspora Museum in 2005
Wednesday December 3, 2003
A new, 20,000 square feet Museum on the African Diaspora (MoAD) is scheduled to open in San Francisco in 2005, reports SFGate.com. The museum's executed director, Patricia Johnson, is quoted ... Read More
Human Rights Watch Report on Nigeria
Tuesday December 2, 2003
In the week that Nigeria hosts the Commonwealth leaders, Human Rights Watch has published a report condemning continuing human rights abuses in the country. According to Peter Takirambudde, Executive Director ... Read More
World Aids Day
Monday December 1, 2003
The 1st of December is World Aids Day. Nearly two thirds of the 40 million people infected with Aids worldwide are in sub-Saharan Africa. According to Unicef, more than 11 ... Read More