So it's been a very nervous day for the mainly Mozambicans and Zimbabweans who are here not sure whether they will be spending tonight in the camp or be fending for themselves. Having been driven from their homes by their South African neighbors in May, the sense I get is that most of these foreigners, if they are forced to go, won’t be going back to the townships they fled from, but will instead, sleep on the streets, possibly even the same street here, just on simply, on the other side of the fence.

If this is, the camp will stay open, I can, I can stay, but I have nowhere to go, because I am not working, I have no money, I, I have no option.

Why don't you go back to where you were in May?

You have come from Zimbabwe, you know the situation in Zimbabwe right now is not good, things are not yet so good.

What about integrating back into South African society?

Yeah, we are afraid of going back, because they are threatening us there in the community. They are saying if you come here, we are going to fight with you. Yeah, we do not do. Yeah, so we are afraid of going back.

That’s a report by Jonah Fisher. A sandal-clad, former Roman Catholic bishop has officially taken over the leadership of Paraguay. Fernando Lugo made history in April, not just because he is a former priest, but because his election as president ended six decades of rule by the Colorado Party. Today he’s been inaugurated. Mr. Lugo has an agenda of land reform and other measures intended to alleviate poverty. For an assessment of the man and what his presidency means for Paraguay, Wodry * spoke to Michael Reid, America's editor for the Economist magazine.

He was a, was a Catholic missionary. He is [a] liberation theologian. He was appointed as bishop at a very young age in, in a rather poor part of Paraguay which is a poor country. And he became a campaigner for land rights, working with small farmers and landless peasants. And he led a march across the country for land rights. And that kind of it catapulted him into the public eye. And through that, that he decided to enter politics and stand for the presidency. And he resigned as bishop, but another, of course, there is something that in strict Catholic doctrine you can’t do. And...

You see, had to, have a bitter of battle with the Pope over that, didn’t you?

And in the, in the end, the Vatican decided to do the sensible thing and, and accept reality, and accept that he had to resign.

And he is very unusual for Paraguay in lots of ways. This is come about through peaceful means which is not a way which often mix transitions in that country, and also he is not a member of the Colorado Party which has been in power there for, for many decades. How much of a transition is that going to be for the country?

I think it is a historic change. I mean, the Colorado Party was, has been in power for 61 years. It is actually the, the longest ruling party in the world. That is longer than the Chinese Communist Party that's still in power. So I think, you know, real change in Paraguay of the kind that’s happened, and you know, most of the place and, and the region is now about to start.

And of course, the people will be expecting great things for him.

That's right. I think that he faces a very difficult job. He will find it would have been much easier to have won the presidency than to govern, because he had to refracture his coalition. He faces some very tough issues. The one in which, there are most expectations, perhaps is the most difficult one to resolve, is indeed the land ownership, because you have a, a lot of landless farmers, on the other hand, you have a lot of large farms, a lot of them now owned by Brazilians who migrated to Paraguay, and they are, they are very efficient agribusiness, soil, farms, which provide most of the country’s foreign exchange and, and most of the government’s revenue, the taxes from these crops. So he is gonna have to steer a, a middle course between achieving some change and not destroying the economy.

And just finally, how is he going to sit within those left-wing governments of the Latin American region. What, what side is he coming down on the Hugo Chavez's side or is he more on the Brazilian side.

well, that is an interesting question. I mean I think he will be his own man. But I mean the signs are that I think he will be more in the mold of some of the more pragmatically, that is such as Chile's Michelle Bachelet or Tabare Vazquez in Uruguay or Inacio Lula. Though, I mean he has appointed a foreign minister who sympathizes with Chavez, but I, I won’t be surprised if in some foreign policy questions, you find Paraguay lining up with Venezuela, because no doubt they would be interested in subsides, oil, and so on. On domestic policy, the signs are that Lugo will be very pragmatic and he has to be.

Michael Reid of the Economist magazine. Now this may surprise you, but it is true. The king of Norway’s private guard has bestowed a special honor on a penguin at Edinburgh Zoo. One of the zoo’s flock has been an honoring member and mascot of the Norwegian king’s guard since the 1980s. Now the bird named Nils Olav has been made a Norwegian knight. Our correspondent Hugh Williams watched the ceremony as Nils Olav waddled up to receive his knighthood.

fend for yourself: to look after yourself without needing help from other people

steer a middle course: to chose a strategy that was not extreme