South African President Thabo Mbeki sought to inject urgency into the building of the African Union (AU) as the fledgling organisation kicked off its second summit in the Mozambican capital Maputo on Thursday.
Madagascar back in the AU fold
An Austrian doctor working in Basra described a ”disastrous humanitarian and security situation” in Iraq, the Catholic press agency Kathpress reported on Thursday.
Rapule Tabane speaks to Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa about governance, ANC policy and the role of legislatures.
Oprah Winfrey’s book club recommendations still count for more than salacious presidential details when it comes to sales, writes Gary Younge from New York.
Nine long-term prisoners who want to have their own spending money in jail had an urgent application for their case to be heard allowed by the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Thursday.
The Zimbabwe government has given the opposition mayor of Harare until Thursday evening to leave his mayoral mansion and give up other perks of his job, a newspaper said on Thursday.
The South African Post Office denied on Thursday that it was technically insolvent saying ”(such) reports are far from the truth and represent a serious deviation from the facts”.
Four Kosovan Albanian children who survived a Serbian massacre and were given the right to live in Manchester went to court in Belgrade yesterday to tell their story to a war crimes trial.