Mortar shell explosions reverberated for several hours on Thursday near Burundi’s capital, prompting thousands of residents to flee their homes, officials said, accusing Hutu rebels of mounting an attack.
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo’s party secured control of parliament on Thursday, two days before a landmark presidential election, as the opposition called for ”mass action” to protest alleged vote-rigging.
Holocaust denialism seeks to deny the systematised massacre of the Jews of continental Europe that took place during World War II. Aids denialism involves a group of dissident historians, social commentators and scientists who have set about denying the forbidding fact of Aids.
Anton Ackermann, the man who prosecuted the apartheid regime’s chemical and biological warfare chief, Wouter Basson, is to head up a unit to oversee apartheid-era prosecutions.
Acting Transport Minister Jeff Radebe was emphatic on Wednesday that all South African drivers must have a new credit-card driving licence by May 1.
Workers are "fenced in" at a garment and textile factory in the Athi River export processing zone in Kenya. They earn less than $2 a day, work long hours for
25 days each month, and are not allowed to join a trade union.
The South African government was expecting the work of a task team considering the cost and viability of providing antiretroviral treatment to persons suffering from HIV/Aids to be completed by the end of the month.
Lobola. It’s so last century. Here’s my understanding of how it worked. So, I’m getting married, but I don’t know it yet. I’m actually the last person to know. Hubby-to-be has to tell the folks first that he’s spotted a fine young woman that he intends marrying.
With her fourth novel, Pamela Jooste is at her best. Shirley Kossick was at the launch.
Did Madonna pull her latest video from circulation as a clever marketing ploy for her new album? Alexis Petridis reports from London.