The head of Ethiopia’s National Election Board has been arrested on charges of corruption and is expected to appear in court on Wednesday.
Somaliland is growing despite the international community, not because of it. It gets no loans or other assistance from the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund.
Government’s proposals for the Growth and Development Summit reflect a remarkable synergy with those of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) given the differences that have rocked their alliance.
The Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PMA) has agreed to meet the National Association of People Living with HIV/Aids (Napwa) to facilitate discussions between Napwa and companies manufacturing medicine for HIV/Aids.
The announcement last weekend that Nat Kekana, a leading African National Congress MP, will quit the National Assembly raises the spectre of a parliamentary brain drain for the ruling party.
Seventy renegade South African chiefs have banded together to campaign for their territories to be "returned" to the kingdom of Swaziland.
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has ordered the army to resume full attack operations against the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, formally ending a limited ceasefire that was declared in March so that peace talks could go ahead.
If all goes according to plan, an explosion of growth is about to turn one of Cape Town’s busiest traffic routes into an economic goldmine.
The Mineral and Petroleum Royalty Bill is one of the final pieces of legislation meant to give effect to the Minerals and Petroleum Resources Development Act, passed last year. It provides for a quarterly charge to be imposed on holders of mineral rights for the extraction and transfer of mineral resources.
Trade union and business negotiators are preparing for a tough year. Two-year wage settlements in the bellwether mining and metal sectors expire and the costs of production on gold mines often exceed the value of gold being produced.