Nigerian militants ask for US mediation in oil crisis

International Herald Tribune: "LAGOS, Nigeria: Militants behind attacks on Nigeria's oil infrastructure have asked the United States and President George W. Bush to mediate to try to end a crisis that has seen foreign workers kidnapped and cut output of Africa's biggest producer.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND, released a letter late Sunday asking for help in ending the years of unrest in the southern Niger Delta region."

Zimbabwe's U.S. Visit Discussion

Interview with Newton Kanhema of the Zimbabwe Independence Assistance Network talks about Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's U.S. visit.

Right wing white supremacists in Ventersdorp

Right wing white supremacists today descended on the small South African town of Ventersdorp , where the court case of two farm workers accused of killing right-wing leader of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement, Eugene Terre'blanche is to be heard. Terre'blanche who led the AWB, that pushed for the preservation of apartheid in the 1990s, was hacked and battered to death by two black farm workers in a suspected dispute over pay.

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