President Daniel arap Moi, one of Africa’s last surviving Big Men, formally dissolved parliament yesterday for a general election which will end his 24-year rule over Kenya.
About 80 young activists belonging to Zimbabwe’s main opposition Movement for Democratic Change were arrested on Sunday for public order offences.
GLUM faces and empty pockets have turned Buenos Aires – once a cheery tribute to political incorrectness where wolf-whistling at women and hurling abuse at fellow motorists were accepted as natural behaviour on its streets – into a shadow of its former self.
A total of 1 781 foreign visitors or tourists were seriously injured in road accidents in eight of South Africa’s nine provinces in the 12-month period ended March and a further 364 died in this time, according to Transport Minister Dullah Omar.
The whereabouts of 46 Sierra Leoneans abducted by unidentified men from Liberia over the past two weeks remains unknown.
South Africa’s Competition Tribunal is set to hear the transaction involving Clicks Pharmaceutical Wholesale’s R281-million acquisition of New United Pharmaceutical Distributors (NUPD), on December 4.
US President George Bush said that he was determined to get the US Congress to lift the Jackson-Vanik amendment, a Soviet-era piece of legislation withholding favourable trade tariffs from Russia.
Seventeen civilians were killed and scores of others wounded when government warplanes bombed four villages in southern Sudan at the weekend.
A programme to recover weapons, transform them into artwork, and then trade them for tools may help create a "culture of peace" in Mozambique.
Citizens from 26 African countries will be barred from arriving in Malaysia through land and sea borders under tough new regulations published on Friday.