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A holiday in Jo’burg? Sure, there’s no better way to escape the beach-bound crowds, reports Justin Pearce.
Cazombo sprawls along both sides of the single street that runs from the airstrip, past an echoing school and hospital building, to the oldest part of town where tile-roofed…
"I am not separated from my husband — we were separated only by the police." Matilda* (59) has spent the past month in a village amid the dry bush of Matabeleland North. She is…
”Very good discussions — constructive discussions.” Anna Tibaijuka’s comments to journalists following her meeting with President Robert Mugabe sounded like the standard…
The continuing flow of arms from neighbouring countries into the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo threatens the fragile peace in that region, Amnesty International…
Mixed messages from the Angolan government about the timing of elections have raised doubts about whether Angolans will indeed go to the polls in 2006, as promised by the…
An Australian academic who was deported from Botswana this week — apparently for his criticism of the government — has said the incident ”seems to have vindicated our arguments”…
People in Pomfret are tired of talking about the mercenaries. ”We only know they went to get bread, that’s all we know,” says Maria Dala. The men who ”went to get bread” had not…
When Domingos Silva left the Angolan army, he returned to his home village and enrolled for classes. At the age of 36, he says, ‘I decided to take the opportunity to learn to…
As the death toll from the Marburg epidemic in Angola passed 200, it emerged that cases of the deadly haemorrhagic fever had been present in the country since October last year.…
Three years after sanctions against ”conflict diamonds” helped end Angola’s civil war, the country’s diamond industry continues to thrive on violence and corruption, according to…
New Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe could yet weather the political storm that surrounds his controversial appointment, thanks to his strong support from the army, analysts…
"It is dark. We have taken five days to get here from Johannesburg, and our arrival in Cuito Cuanavale is going to be delayed by another day. The plan is to drive to the site of…
Mozambique’s ruling party, Frelimo, surged ahead last week in unofficial results from the country’s recent election, puzzling analysts who had expected a neck-and-neck finish…
Just hours before the closing of polls in Mozambique, the elections commission called on citizens to vote, reminding them of their civic duty. The elections were marked by…
"We need Renamo to see what they will bring," says Asahel Bin Dando Ossene who, along with most other people on Mozambique Island, survives by fishing. "For 20 years we had…
Four years after the murder of Mozambican journalist Carlos Cardoso, his legacy in investigating corruption has cast a shadow over the campaign for next week’s election. At the…
Teodósio Alexandre (21) spends his days knee-deep in garbage. Picking through rubbish at the dump in the Maputo township of Hurlene, he makes 30 000 metacais (about R10) on a…
Almost 12 years after Angolans last went to the polls, prospects of an election are becoming brighter. Earlier this month, Angola’s Council of the Republic — the highest…
When former Unita soldier Pedro da Silva disembarked from an army truck at Kituma, he thought it was going to be an overnight stop. That was in January and he is still there.
