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The viability of an effort endorsed by the United Nations to halt the trading of the so-called blood diamonds that have fueled conflicts across Africa is on the line this week, and the test case is Zimbabwe.
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A South African newspaper has published what it says are e-mails showing local track officials authorized gender tests done in the country on runner Caster Semenya.
South Africa — Brandon Huntley was exultant when he first won a ruling that granted him refugee status in Canada.
“Look for me in tomorrow’s Ottawa Sun people, lookout I’m a celebrity!” he wrote on his Facebook site.
But he quickly deleted...
New world 800m champion Caster Semenya has been asked to take a gender test, according to athletics’ governing body.
The International Association of Athletics Federations says it demanded the test three weeks ago amid fears she should not be...
Louis Mzomba is a schoolteacher in South Africa. He’s a man in love with his job and his country but sometimes they make him cry. Take the case of Andile.
Andile was a bright boy, 14 years old. He impressed his schoolmaster with his attitude to his...
Ethiopia’s Hamer people, a long isolated, pastoral warrior tribe, are increasingly opening up to tourists, a move some fear could endanger age-old traditions with too much exposure to foreign cultural influence.
For centuries the Hamer lived in...
Thirty-one teenage boys have died from complications after botched traditional circumcision rites in South Africa’s rural Eastern Cape region, officials said on Friday.
“Since the beginning of June, two deaths are being recorded almost...
South Africa have sealed an historic Test series victory in Australia, winning the second Test after reaching 183 for the loss of just one wicket.Graeme Smith’s side hugged on the team balcony at the Melbourne Cricket Ground as Hashim Amla stroked...
The government intensified its crackdown on critics and opponents. Davison Maruziva, editor of the independent newspaper The Standard, was jailed for printing an opinion article by a prominent opposition politician. The police also arrested Lovemore...
There is no shortage of good things to eat in the open-air Wholesale Market here in Nicaragua’s capital. Canvas sacks groan with rice and lentils. White eggs are stacked neatly, 30 to a box, fresh from the hens that laid them.
But talk to...
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