Ravalomanana was on April 29 officially declared the winner of a December presidential election, after months of dispute with incumbent president Didier Ratsiraka who has refused to accept the result, leaving the island with two rival governments. In a sign of international recognition for Ravalomanana, the popular mayor of the capital, France and the 15-nation […]
THE Treatment Action Campaign’s (TAC) battle with the government over its antiretroviral programme is set to continue in the Constitutional Court on Monday. The 11 judges are to hear argument from counsel for the University of the Western Cape’s Community Law Centre, the Institute for Democracy in SA and Cotlands Baby Sanctuary. These organisations have […]
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MYANMAR democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been freed after 19 months under house arrest, the junta said on Monday as her party waited for her to make a triumphant return to its downtown headquarters.
ACCLAIMED South African artist Father Frans Claerhout is causing a furore in
art circles after revealing to a Sunday newspaper that hundreds of his
paintings are forgeries.
SOME 25 000 Unita rebels in Angola have turned themselves in to
demobilisation camps since the movement signed a ceasefire with the army on
April 4 to end 27 years of civil war, President Jose Eduardo dos Santos said
on Friday.
MALAWI police said on Friday they had arrested a fugitive member of
parliament (MP) wanted on charges of killing his driver and possibly also
his wife, after a five-week manhunt.
FORMER South African president Nelson Mandela plans to visit the Libyan
secret agent imprisoned in Glasgow for planting the bomb on a plane that
killed 270 people over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988, a Sunday
paper said.
ELEPHANTS and hippos have destroyed up to 10 000 hectares of crops in
hunger-stricken Malawi’s southern lakeshore district of Mangochi, a local
lawmaker said on Saturday.
SOUTH Korean authorities on Saturday slaughtered thousands of animals after
outbreaks of highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease.