Western countries should kickstart deadlocked global trade talks to heal the international diplomatic rifts left by the war in Iraq, Supachai Panitchpakdi, the director of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), urged this week.
The Central African Republic will not be represented at next week’s assembly of the African Union (AU) in Maputo, President Thabo Mbeki confirmed on Friday.
President Paul Kagame criticised Western countries on Friday for putting pressure on him to allow political opponents to operate more freely ahead of elections scheduled to take place in the next two months.
The Mozambican government has adopted a new strategy to combat the spread of Aids, now focusing on care as well as prevention, Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi said on Friday.
A handful of demonstrators showed up at ”mass pickets” against American President George Bush on Friday, with 18 people attending the event in Johannesburg and nine in Pretoria.
Liberia’s besieged President Charles Taylor Friday renewed a pledge to step down, but stressed he would only leave after an international peacekeeping force is deployed to his west African nation.
A Pretoria High Court judge on Friday criticised the Tshwane metro council for ignoring court orders and legal procedures, leaving 36 families, counting amongst ”the poorest of the poor”, out in the veld in the middle of winter.
Former South African president Nelson Mandela could act as a ”facilitator” between India and Pakistan to resolve their dragging dispute over Kashmir, the state’s former chief minister said on Friday.
The government’s action plan on school financing has received cautious backing
but critics say it should go much further.
Any attempt to extract heavy minerals from the dunes along the Eastern Cape’s Pondoland coast will be massively destructive; according to one South African expert, such mining operations typically wipe out everything in their path.