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Associated Press - July 5, 2009 9:43 AM ET DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - The Dubai developer building the world's tallest building says it has shut down the office set up in Algeria to oversee $20 billion worth of real estate projects. Emaar Properties said in a statement posted Sunday on the Web site of the Dubai Financial Market that it closed the office... [read full story]
HARARE, Zimbabwe, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Mines Minister Obert Mpofu says security troops are being withdrawn from diamond fields they have occupied after the beleaguered government was threatened with expulsion from the global...
Volunteer electricians from the Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee reconnect those who can't afford to pay the bill. The power company says it's illegal, but the volunteers say everyone in South Africa has a right to...
Tonight's Dispatches special shows intrepid Brit Gary Foxcroft returning to the Nigerian region where he uncovered widespread cruelty to children accused of witchcraft by rogue church pastors. Submitted by Kelli Stowe to World...
More than 300 former combatants in Darfur, including women and disabled persons, have participated in a three-day discharge programme organized by the Government of Sudan with support from the joint African Union-United Nations...
