Namibia will introduce a land tax on commercial farmland to augment government's efforts in developing the neglected communal areas as well as to acquire more commercial land for resettlement purposes.

Mining Watch Canada and the NGO Working Group on the Export Development Corporation join with environmental and human rights groups in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Tanzania to call for an independent investigation into allegations of mass killings and forced relocation of small scale miners at the Bulyanhulu gold mine in Tanzania in 1996.

Talks between white farmers and the Zimbabwean government over land seizures and lawlessness on farms collapsed in deadlock last week.

It is the forces of poverty, environmental degradation and hatred that give birth to the intolerance that can lead to fundamentalism and terrorist acts, Klaus Toepfer said today.