US President George Bush’s administration faces credibility problems after insisting for months that Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction posed an imminent security threat, experts say.
Kuwait’s private sector is reaping the benefits of strong support for the war in Iraq and snapping up business opportunities that economists believe will become increasingly lucrative.
Finance ministers from across Africa gather in the Ethiopian capital this week for the the 38th annual meeting of the African Development Bank group (ADB), where attention will focus on easing the economic woes of the world’s poorest continent.
The dazzling performance by South African banking group Absa for the year to the end of March which saw the group boost headline profits by more than 80% shows that it has fully recovered from the UniFer debacle which seriously dented the country’s banking industry.
Eastern Cape conservation has received a R8,1-million boost from the National Lottery to build a marine rehabilitation centre in Port Elizabeth, the beneficiary, the SA Marine Rehabilitation and Education Centre Trust, said on Monday.
The South African rand was ignoring news from Zimbabwe that opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai had been arrested as the Movement for Democratic Change launched a week-long "final push".
Three Nigerians sentenced to be stoned to death for having sex outside marriage will appeal before Islamic courts this week, turning the spotlight back on a bitter battle over Sharia law.
Liberian President Charles Taylor and rebels fighting his regime since 1999 will meet face to face for the first time from Wednesday in Ghana to try and end a festering war that has spread chaos in west Africa.
Authorities arrested Zimbabwe’s opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, on Monday, vowing to crush the launch of anti-government demonstrations the opposition hopes will mark the most significant challenge yet to President Robert Mugabe’s decades long rule.
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