Cartels Battle for Supremacy in South AfricaÂs Taxi Wars
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Thousands of South African taxi owners, drivers and passengers have been killed in one of the strangest guerrilla wars to bedevil any nation.
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AGADEZ, Niger  - When Mohamed Latey shot dead the  local police lieutenant and stole his truck, he believed he was  fighting for the freedom of his fellow nomads in the Sahara.
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Poor immigration control on South Africa&#39;s borders is believed to have contributed to the rapid spread of HIV/Aids in the country.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- JesÃÂºs Vivas drives a 26-year-old clunker with rusted fenders, ripped upholstery and a tattered carpet. With a wheeze, a plume of smoke and a walrus-like roar, the wreck he calls a taxi accelerates down congested streets. About the only thing that works well is a new radio,...
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Money seized from organised criminals is to be used to expand two crimefighting units.
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NEW YORK The streets of this city and the roadways leading into it were vehicular combat zones. Big trucks ruled the highways. But their size turned against them in tight urban quarters, where motorized guerrilla warfare raged and speed and agility were needed to do battle with yellow cabs.
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Sri Lankaâs emphatic victory over the South Africans must count among the finest in their cricketing history. Graeme Smithâs side were taken apart with the efficiency of crew changing tyres at a car race.
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As rebels, soldiers and pro-government militia fight on, civilians pay the price
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The Colombian government is pursuing a relentless campaign to seize drug traffickers' assets.
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Crosses, burned vehicles and blown-up bridges mark the narrow road that runs from a provincial capital to this village near the Venezuelan border - the scars of a protracted and bitter battle between a right-wing paramilitary group and Marxist rebels for control of the region's cocaine industry.
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Gun battles between federal forces and drug-cartel members carrying rocket-propelled-grenade launchers may give the impression that a war is going on in Mexico.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa  - Crime-ridden,  snarled with traffic and studded with architectural eyesores,  Johannesburg is not a classic holiday spot.
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JOHANNESBURG -- Hendrik Verwoerd Drive is headed for the dustbin. The busy road, named after a key architect of the apartheid laws that oppressed South Africa's black majority for decades, is likely to get a name more in step with the times: Nkululeko Drive, the Zulu word for "freedom."
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JUTIAPA, Guatemala  - In towns along Guatemala's drug corridor between El Salvador and Mexico, drug traffickers flush with money see this year's elections as a new way to extend their power.
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The charges against the new leader of South Africaâs dominant party could precipitate a political crisis.
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When a cabdriver tried to get Matthew Daus to pay a fare with cash instead of a credit card, Daus knew that wasn't right. As the head of the commission that regulates city taxis, he would know.
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Drug cartels south of the border are now using YouTube to deliver the kiss of