Harrowing details of how terrorists slit the throats of security guards before detonating bombs in Moroccan bars and restaurants were revealed last night as police disclosed that at least 41 people had been killed in the latest atrocities linked to al-Qaida.
The late African National Congress struggle hero Walter Sisulu was buried in Croesus Cemetery in Newclare, Johannesburg on Saturday, following a moving ceremony at Orlando Stadium in Soweto.
The Western Cape based Anti-Eviction Campaign is set to challenge stringent bail conditions placed on Max Ntanyana, a Mandela Park community leader.
The treason trial of Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai resumed in the Harare High Court this week amid reports that the governing Zanu-PF is already backtracking on talks driven by African leaders to solve the country’s political and economic crisis.
Scenes of shock and panic filled the streets of Casablanca early on Saturday after a series of suicide bomb attacks in the Moroccan business capital left at least 24 people dead.
Brian Martin, a computer consultant in Maryland, is careful when he handles the plastic discs in his DVD library of more than 200 movies. But accidents — and scratches — still happen.
Mourners started gathering from the early hours on Saturday at the Orlando Stadium in Soweto, Johannesburg for the funeral service of African National Congress struggle hero, the late Walter Sisulu.
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Occasional gunshots, groaning wounded and the shrieks of hungry children seeking safety in a besieged UN compound expressed the horror of Bunia yesterday.
A specific al-Qaeda terrorist threat against British planes to Nairobi led to the suspension of flights between the UK and Kenya, the east African country’s national security minister said yesterday.
The Guardian’s Zimbabwe correspondent, Andrew Meldrum, was deported last night even though three separate court orders were made prohibiting his expulsion.