President Charles Taylor’s top military commander is all for foreign intervention to end the brutal civil war here but he warned of more war if he is not ”treated right” in a post-Taylor scenario.
Former constitutional development minister Roelf Meyer will not have to testify for the defence when the Boeremag treason trial resumes next Monday.
The Treatment Action Campaign’s (TAC) suspended civil disobedience campaign will be high on the agenda when the organisation meets for its national congress on Friday.
Children from a growing number of countries are being imported into Britain against their will as cheap labour, often ending up in prostitution, according to a new report published by Unicef, the United Nation’s children’s organisation, on Wednesday.
A doctor and three senior nurses from Chris Hani-Baragwanath hospital, as well as two Aids activists, symbolically tied themselves together with a rope in front of the national health department’s head office in Pretoria on Wednesday.
Former Zambian president Frederick Chiluba was being grilled by police on Wednesday over allegations that he stole millions of dollars in state funds during his 10-year reign in the southern African country.
The United States on Wednesday lifted a nine-year-old embargo on weapons sales to Rwanda but kept in place a ban on such transfers to non-governmental entities in the African nation.
Former Sierra Leone rebel leader Foday Sankoh died early on Wednesday at a Freetown hospital, said an official at a United Nations (UN)-backed war crimes court where he was facing trial.
A three-year-old White River girl was locked in a cage while her grandparents allegedly sexually assaulted her and failed to provide for even her most basic needs, Mpumalanga police said on Wednesday.
Opposition parties strongly criticised the African National Congress on Wednesday for not taking strict enough disciplinary steps against Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota and former chief whip Tony Yengeni.
ANC cleans house