US aircraft hit a Red Crescent maternity hospital in Baghdad, the city’s trade fair, and other civilian buildings today, killing several people and wounding at least 25, hospital sources and a Reuters witness said.
The international watchdog Human Rights Watch has just released a report documenting the trafficking of children in Togo, in particular girls used as domestics and market vendors and boys made to work as labourers on farms.
The voracious appetite of Africans for news of the Iraq war has sent sales of satellite dishes and transistor radios soaring, even in the remotest corners of the world’s largest continent.
Government on Wednesday officially launched its Country Corruption Assessment Report (CCAR) on South Africa, but warned the document has ”serious shortcomings” and is based on inadequate data.
The current turmoil in Swaziland is a result of blurred lines between the powers of the executive, the judiciary and legislature, making it unclear who exactly was making the decisions.
Former Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) MP and current KwaZulu-Natal MPL Jan Slabbert on Wednesday announced he is leaving the IFP to form a new party — the Peace and Development Party (PDP).
Malawi President Bakili Muluzi on Wednesday dissolved his entire 39-member cabinet but gave no reasons for the surprise move, a statement from his office said.
A leading Aids researcher has slammed southern African governments for being slow, inadequate and unimaginative in their response to the Aids epidemic.
The New National Party, which was hit by 17 defections from its ranks in the two week defection period for politicians, has gained its first two defectors.
US forces today secured the central Iraqi city of Kerbala and a strategically important Tigris river crossing in their push to Baghdad.