A pro-government Congolese militia — one of several factions in the Mai-Mai ethnic group — has retracted claims that South Africa is smuggling weapons into the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in collusion with mercenaries.
US President George Bush arrived on Friday for a four-hour visit to Uganda, during which he will meet President Yoweri Museveni and Aids orphans.
A UN food agency warned on Friday that hundreds of thousands of people in Liberia are cut off from aid and risked starvation unless a peaceful solution to the country’s civil war is reached quickly.
Nelson Mandela unveiled a plaque to two anti-apartheid activists in London.
Any US military role in Liberia will be ”very limited in duration and scope”, intended only to help west African peacekeepers get established there, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Thursday.
Nigeria’s ruling party on Friday is attempting to rectify a political crisis that broke out in the south-eastern Nigerian state of Anambra when the state’s governor was removed from office in what may have been an elaborate coup attempt.
It was unacceptable that, despite South Africa’s skills shortage, training bodies had failed to spend the R6-billion allocated to them over the past two years, the United Democratic Movement (UDM) said on Friday.
Hambisana nezikhathi. Understand? According to the 2001 census most of you should. It means ”move with the times” in Zulu, still the most widely spoken home language in South Africa.
The South African Statistics Council, an independent body that oversees Statistics South Africa, plans to subject the 2006 census to a thorough review following concerns about certain aspects of the 2001 census.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the South African Communist Party appear to have been sidelined in the African National Congress’s election list process, according to leftists within the ruling alliance.