Ten years after Rwandan Hutu extremists massacred their country’s Tutsi minority, ethnic Tutsis in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have claimed they are the target of a new genocide and threatened Kinshasa with war if nothing is done about it.
Legal and financial constraints are preventing millions of black South African township residents from capitalising on their properties, a new study has found. Research has indicated that homes in black townships are worth an estimated R68,3-billion, but the use of residential property to create wealth remains limited.
Three Pakistanis and a Singaporean were charged in a Malaysian court on Wednesday with abducting a South African diplomat. Deputy High Commissioner Nicky Scholtz reported that he was forced into a car as he walked along a Kuala Lumpur street, robbed and held prisoner for several days before being freed.
Romania has banned the adoption of its children by families in other countries, except in very limited circumstances. The vote by MPs to approve the bill passed by the upper house two months ago bows to the EU’s demand that the lucrative trade in children should be stamped out.
Poverty and malnutrition are undermining Zimbabwe’s battle against HIV and Aids.
Doctors who have been examining the impact of anti-retroviral drugs in Zimbabwe have found that the anti-Aids drugs are too expensive in a country where some three-quarters of the population live in poverty.
African and developed countries are to devise a joint plan by next year to transform broad commitment to the continent’s development into concrete action, says the chairperson of the secretariat of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad), Wiseman Nkuhlu.
Twenty people were arrested on Wednesday in dawn raids targeting an immigration scam that brought more than 1 000 people, mainly South Africans, into Britain using fraudulently obtained student visas. The raids were aimed at a huge immigration racket estimated to have earned the perpetrators millions.
On Monday Uganda became the latest African country to begin distributing free antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to HIV-positive people.
Equatorial Guinea has accused Spain of trying to overthrow its government in the alleged plot by foreign mercenaries to kill the president. President Teodoro Obiang’s special adviser, Miguel Mifuno, accused Madrid of sending a warship to the country with 500 marines on board.
More than 300 people gathered at the Hector Peterson memorial on Wednesday for a wreath laying ceremony as part of Youth Day commemorations. Peterson, then aged 13, was shot dead by police in the June 16, 1976, schoolchildren’s uprising. He was the first victim of that event.