The UN Security Council on Wednesday extended for another six months the global ban on the direct and indirect importation of all rough diamonds from Sierra Leone. However, rough diamonds under the control of the Sierra Leonean government would continue to be exempt under the certificate of origin regime started in July 2000.
Swazi men, from parliamentarians to soccer officials, are flocking to elongate their penises but women in the southern African kingdom are not impressed, a weekend report said.
Burkina Faso will host international meningitis experts to a meeting in July to discuss and adopt a global response to recurrent outbreaks of the disease.
Wolfie Kodesh, a long-time South African Communist Party member and a prominent figure in the liberation struggle died at age 84 in Cape Town on Friday night.
The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) is now widely expected to withdraw from the national cabinet in the next few weeks after being given an ultimatum from the African National Congress (ANC) to stick to its coalition agreement.
South Africa released a long-awaited final draft of a mining charter on Wednesday, which said 26% of the country’s mining assets must be owned by black businesses within 10 years.
Gensec Bank’s investment in 25 Gauteng schools is garnering positive results. One of these schools is BB Myataza, which had an 85% matric pass rate last year. Together with the National Business Initiative’s (NBI) Equip programme, Gensec Bank’s corporate affairs department, under the guiding hand of Eric Ratshikhopha, is investing in BB Myataza and 24 […]
President Vladimir Putin’s effort to rescue the hostages trapped in a Moscow theatre was threatening to turn from a military triumph into a political disaster last night as the authorities grudgingly admitted that up to 150 people may have been killed by Russia’s own special forces.
Guinea-Bissau faces a daunting task to improve children’s well being. While national immunisation coverage has improved, its 40% primary school enrolment was decreasing.
ZIMBABWE raises the most concerns of any African country and peaceful political change there is "almost inconceivable," says a report by the International Institute of Strategic Studies.