Full Coverage: Southern Africa

30.03.2007 Vice Chancellors and other high level representatives of Universities in Afghanistan, China, India, Nepal and Pakistan, have come together with major regional and European organisations to launch the Himalayan University Consortium as an alliance for knowledge networking, policy advocacy, and for promoting the concept and practice of sustainable mountain development.

27.03.2007 After years of inaction, leaders from 14 Southern African nations will hold crisis talks later this week to try to halt Zimbabwe's slide into "full-scale humanitarian, social, and political crisis."

19.03.2007 Only months after a High Court ruling enabled Botswana Bushmen to return to land from which they had been evicted, the government has turned down their request for permission to install a pump at an existing borehole. A leader of the community is travelling to London this week to protest against the ban.

15.03.2007 The country at the center of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic has long been derided for its reticence to deal assertively with the problem. But a new plan is being lauded as a significant turnabout.

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02.03.2007 “It was very strange. I’d never seen a play like this in my entire theatrical life. When I first read the play I said: “what is this? what is this?” I thought maybe there was some mistake, maybe I’ve been given all the same pages.” – South African actress Nomlhe Nkonyeni.