Guarded optimism as at climate talks

The world's climate negotiators worked into early Friday morning amid guarded hopes of making progress.

'Climate code red' at UN talks, warns Nigeria

Africa's frustration at the United Nations climate summit boiled over on Monday as delegates walked out of key talks.

Shadow contest in full swing for ANC top job

Officially no one is a candidate and there is not even a campaign, but in reality the contest to become the next South African president is well under way ahead of a crucial vote in December. The African National Congress (ANC) meets at the end of year to choose the person expected to lead the party into the 2009 general elections.

Net closes on SA's canned hunting industry

Carel van Heerden feels no reason to apologise about his doomed lion-breeding business. "Trophy hunters will always exist. We're taking the pressure off the rest of the roaming lions in Africa." The appetite for big-game hunting among foreign tourists sustains around 300 lion-breeding farms across South Africa.

Chinese leader ends Mozambique visit

Chinese leader Hu Jintao on Friday left Mozambique for the Seychelles, the last stop on an African swing marked by Beijing's largesse and staunch rebuttal of criticism that it was plundering the continent. Hu on Thursday announced a debt waiver, cash grants and increased market access for goods from war-ravaged Mozambique.

Hu calls for 'pragmatic cooperation' with Maputo

Chinese President Hu Jintao on Thursday announced a debt waiver, cash grants, increased market access and "pragmatic cooperation" with war-ravaged Mozambique on the last major stop of his current African tour. Hu signed a slew of cooperation agreements and announced that Beijing was waiving Mozambique's bilateral debt.
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