Desmond Tutu shocked by Gaza conditions

Desmond Tutu has said that he is shocked by conditions in the Gaza strip after months of Israeli sanctions. Tutu won the South African Nobel Peace Prize in 1984."Tutu, who has been on a UN fact-finding mission to...

Kenyan Bloggers Speak Out Against Violence

The turmoil continues in Kenya, especially now that President Kibaki has announced his hand-picked cabinet, which included the leader of the third-place party as his vice-president. The opposition has been howling ever since, and fears abound of violence intensifying in the...

Tutu Awarded Top German Prize

Retired Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu was a key figure in the South African resistance to Apartheid.  "South African cleric Desmond Tutu was on Sunday awarded one of Germany's most prestigious honours, the...

Gates Foundation`s US$100 mln initiative for health research

""The biggest advances in health often come from unexpected places," said Dr. Tachi Yamada, president of the Gates Foundation's Global Health Program. "To effectively tackle diseases like AIDS and malaria, we need to encourage the best and brightest minds to take risks on...

Southern Africa: Totalitarian tendencies...

It is ironic that a couple of days before Human Rights Day here in South Africa, we had to witness the pathetic response from the ANC-led coalition government to the human-rights abuses by police in...

Desmond Tutu "ashamed" of church gay ban

"Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in the first authorized biography of the Nobel peace laureate, said he was ashamed of his Anglican church's conservative position that rejected gay priests. In the book, "Rabble-Rouser...

Desmond Tutu "ashamed" of church gay ban

"Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in the first authorized biography of the Nobel peace laureate, said he was ashamed of his Anglican church's conservative position that rejected gay priests. In the book, "Rabble-Rouser f"Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in the first authorized biography of...

Tackling Extremism - Doha Debates

The issue of how to combat extremism and improve relations between the West and Muslim world was the topic of the second Doha Debates Special on February 28th, 2006. The event was part of the Doha meeting of the...

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