Jonah Hull is a roving correspondent based out of Al Jazeera's London broadcast centre. He has extensive experience covering breaking news, conflict and natural disasters around the world. In his previous role as Al Jazeera English's Moscow correspondent, Jonah covered the final years of Vladimir Putin's presidency, the election that installed his successor, Dmitry Medvedev, and the five-day war between Georgia and Russia in August 2008.
Madagascar's deposed president, who was convicted in absentia of abuse of office last year, plans to leave exile in South Africa and return home on Saturday.
<P>Neither the issue of command responsibility, nor the question of mass rape as a weapon of war, are new to international law, but having them conjoined, as alleged in the Bemba case, is a new and important development.</P>
<P> A network of forces that traditionally go hammer-and-tong at each other elsewhere, seem to work together in Germany, allowing the economy, and the people, to survive the worst of times.</P>
<P>An insidious drug, made from detergent powder, rat poison and antiretroviral drugs distributed free to HIV sufferers, is sweeping Durban's townships. </P>
<P>The World Cup should be a huge source of pride for South Africa after years spent in the sporting wilderness under apartheid.</P>
