Children of the fallen heroes of Namibia’s struggle for independence spent two months camping outside the Ministry of Veterans Affairs building in the capital Windhoek.
They have demanded jobs and education as compensation for the role played by their fathers and mothers during the protracted armed struggle against the South African apartheid government.
The Swapo-led Namibian government, [...]

It is eight months after the election. Zimbabwe still has no government. Mbeki, for all his shortcomings and failure to deliver on his mandate as SADC Chairman, has been toppled by his party and has sunk gracefully into obscurity. The US, a nation at war, has since elected Obama as president, and his former opponent [...]

Simon Milward, a British humanitarian and motorcycle enthusiast, rode a hand-made 600cc motor-cycle through 55 countries, covering 178,000km and raising US$109,000 for medical charities. This heroic journey of his life ended in Mali, after he crashed. He rode through the Road of Bones in Siberia and a civil war in Laos. I met him a month before his tragic death in March 2005 and asked him why he was taking the risk.