An act to follow
What is the significance of African ministers meeting to consider amendments to the African Union Constitutive Act, wonders Gamal Nkrumah

'Beating swords into plowshares'
Philip Berrigan -- former priest, pacifist and celebrated activist in the American anti-war movement -- died of cancer on 6 December in Baltimore.

A cloned Arab?
A controversial Italian embryologist claims to be about to clone the first human -- an Arab baby, reports Samia Nkrumah from Rome