Scientists this week began a month-long analysis of the brown smog that hangs over Cape Town on winter days.
The Zimbabwe government has made a formal appeal for new international food aid to stave off starvation faced by some 5,5-million people, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Thursday.
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If the presidential jet Inkwazi had not been used to take a minister and the president’s legal adviser to Kinshasa last month, there might not have been a government in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), director general in the Presidency Frank Chikane said on Thursday.
Physicians, scientists and laboratory workers from 18 African countries will hold talks with their US counterparts in Gaborone from Sunday to strengthen laboratory technique and practice in the fight against HIV/Aids.
Pick ‘n Pay chief executive Sean Summers said on Thursday that the supermarket chain will maintain high security at its stores.
Gunmen describing themselves as Saddam Hussein’s Fedayeen militia vowed to step up attacks on US forces and their Iraqi collaborators to avenge the killing of his sons Uday and Qusay, in a video aired on Al-Arabiya television on Thursday.
The presidency has washed its hands of the reported controversial outcome of a Nigerian oil deal supported by President Thabo Mbeki in 1999.
The South African cabinet has snubbed the United States government over its insistence on linking military training assistance with indemnifying US service people.
Rebels battling for control of Monrovia were pushing on Thursday towards the city centre as the humanitarian crisis deepened in the Liberian capital after nearly a week of fighting.
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