Even if they no longer hold the whip hand in Burundi, the armed rebels showed this week that they still have a lethal grip on it.
The regional grouping designed to spearhead Africa’s transformation is now playing catch up to the continental organisation. Leaders of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) gather in Dar es Salaam this weekend to pull the choke on its reforms.
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The incidence of HIV/Aids infection among adults in Zimbabwe has dropped by nearly 10% in three years, according to figures released on Thursday by the government of President Robert Mugabe.
Senior Hamas leader Ismail Abu Shanab had been planning attacks against Israel despite the group’s stated adherence to a truce, a senior Israeli security source said after his killing on Thursday.
Auditor General Shauket Fakie on Thursday rebuffed claims that arms-deal investigators glossed over alleged irregularities in the procurement process. He also quashed an accusation that a subcontractor was allowed to drop its price to secure a deal after the "tender" had closed.
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Ali Hassan al-Majid, the Iraqi commander known as ”Chemical Ali”, has been captured and is in custody in the United States, a US defence official said on Thursday.
The misuse of the apostrophe and the appropriate use of the hyphen — questions that have plagued teachers of English and editors for generations — could soon be at an end.
The Palestinian militant group Hamas on Thursday officially declared its ceasefire finished after an Israeli air strike killed one of its top leaders.
Top Hamas man was ‘directing attacks’
At least 120 people, most of them fighters in the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, have been killed in northern Uganda in the past fortnight, the army said on Thursday.