US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged Asia’s biggest security community to keep the pressure on North Korea to end its nuclear programme.
Tourism to Africa will grow by a slower 2% to 3% in 2009 from about 47-million arrivals last year because of the global economic slowdown.
South Korea’s former president Roh Moo-hyun appears to have jumped to his death in the mountains near his home on Saturday, a top aide said.
North Korea launched a long-range rocket over Japan on Sunday, drawing swift international condemnation and triggering an emergency meeting of the UN.
North Korea will soon launch a long-range rocket after completing preparations to put a satellite into space, its official media said on Saturday.
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/ 21 November 2008
Rwanda plans to lay 2 300km of fibre-optic cable costing -million in 2009 to extend a network throughout most of the Central African nation
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/ 12 November 2008
Rwanda asked the German ambassador to leave Kigali on Tuesday in a growing row over Germany’s arrest of a senior aide to President Paul Kagame.
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/ 12 September 2008
Uganda’s fugitive rebel commander, Joseph Kony, says his fighters will defend themselves if they are attacked by Congolese forces.
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/ 11 September 2008
Eritrea on Thursday condemned Canada’s refusal to grant its foreign minister a visa on the grounds that he took part in the war for independence.
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/ 10 September 2008
Uganda’s army on Wednesday urged the DRC and UN peacekeepers there to attack Ugandan rebels and force the guerrillas’ leader to sign a peace deal.