Swazi unions are calling on the government to pay out a 4.5% salary increase and end the teachers’ strike or risk a boycott of the reed dance.
Swazi Indigenous Products was one of 25 global winners of the UN Development Programme Equator Prize. Louise Redvers reports.
Pro-democracy activists are calling for stringent conditions for the South African loan so it is not squandered, writes Louise Redvers.
Pro-government militia are being blamed for a string of attacks on members of a youth protest movement, writes Louise Redvers.
Ten months after Michael Sata’s historic victory Zambians are starting to wonder whether they made the right choice. Louise Redvers reports
A court ruling that ousted the controversial president of Angola’s national electoral commission has been hailed by the country’s opposition parties.
Lesotho goes to the polls on May 26 and as 15 parties battle it out in the closely fought election, the country’s problems are largely ignored.
A new report heralds progress in many areas in Africa but cautions against unrealistic optimism. Louise Redvers reports
The much delayed international facility in Swaziland has been condemned by activists as a ‘royal vanity project’.
Swaziland soldiers and police turned away demonstrators from Mbabane and the union group was declared illegal, leaving the protests quite futile.