President Robert Mugabe on Sunday postponed his usual reception before the opening of parliament this week, an event that some diplomats, civic leaders and opposition politicians had said they would boycott.
South African banking group Absa’s forensic team is probing several cases of internet fraud. This follows incidents where three clients in the Western Cape have had money removed from their accounts by a hacker who gained unauthorised access to their computers.
Idi Amin Dada, whose eight-year presidency of African nation Uganda is remembered by the torture and murder of more than 200 000 people, is in a coma in a Saudi hospital, medical staff at the hospital said on Sunday.
Rebels pushed further on Sunday into Liberia’s war-ravaged capital where they exchanged rounds of mortar and machine-gun fire with government troops, sending another wave of residents fleeing.
Rebels renewed their assault on the Liberian capital, Monrovia, at the weekend, sending thousands of civilians fleeing and shattering the fragile ceasefire before peacekeepers arrive.
North Korea may have secretly built a second nuclear reprocessing plant to produce weapons-grade plutonium, according to evidence found by US intelligence agencies.
In a flat on the potholed 25th street of Havana’s Vedado district, a group of women perch on plastic sofas discussing the solitary confinement cells of Cuba’s prisons and the 14 hours a year visiting time they get with their recently jailed dissident husbands.
The transformation of the accounting profession in South Africa was enhanced this week with the merger of MSGM Masuku Jeena Inc and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the world’s largest professional services firm.
"The [European Union] has taken a deliberate decision to keep its farmers on the land, whether or not they are internationally competitive … If we are fully competitive, employment in the farm sector will drop from seven million farmers to just one million. This is politically unacceptable."
United States President George W Bush’s recent trip to Africa may have catapulted Charles Taylor’s Liberia to front-page headlines across the world, but a more serious, Africa-wide problem has been tragically overlooked.