Nigeria was facing its second week of a crippling general strike on Sunday after union leaders rejected a government offer to scale back a fuel price hike.
Russia yesterday began beefing up security measures around the capital after Saturday’s suicide bombings, as President Putin cancelled an overseas trip to try to deal with the fear gripping the city’s 10-million inhabitants.
Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Sunday handed out certificates to party members in KwaZulu-Natal who remained loyal to him during the floor-crossing window earlier this year.
A Boeing 727 cargo plane which caused panic among US intelligence agencies after mysteriously disappearing from Angola’s main airport turned up last week in Guinea.
Liberia’s embattled president, Charles Taylor, accepted an offer of asylum in Nigeria yesterday but gave no indication of when he would leave and insisted that it must be an ”orderly exit from power”.
A 24-year-old British journalist shot dead in Baghdad over the weekend was a relative novice who had travelled to Iraq to fulfil an ambition to work as a war reporter.
Corporate reporting is undergoing a revolution as more and more multinational and local companies report on their management of social, environmental and economic impacts — the "triple bottom line".
Officials in Zimbabwe hurled racial epithets at United States Secretary of State Colin Powell last week, including branding him an "Uncle Tom" after his attack on President Robert Mugabe in <i>The New York Times</i> the previous week.
The black economic empowerment drive in financial services has proceeded far more smoothly than in any other sector, and this week’s encounter between industry representatives and the government is expected to be a good-natured affair.