Kinshasa | Monday THE World Bank has approved a $450-million (500-million euro) credit line for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) aimed at rebuilding the vast central African country’s war-ravaged economy, official sources said on Sunday. Under the terms of the loan agreement signed between the DRC government and the Bank, the monies will be […]
ANTHONY MORLAND, Pretoria | Monday A UN Security Council mission began a whirlwind tour of eight African countries in South Africa on Sunday, aimed at boosting peace efforts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Burundi. Headed by French ambassador Jean-David Levitte who sounded an upbeat note as he arrived in Pretoria the third […]
Antananarivo | Tuesday MARC Ravalomanana, who has been officially declared president of Madagascar, will be sworn in to office on Friday in the capital Antananarivo, political and judicial sources said on Tuesday. Ravalomanana, who was declared on Monday by a constitutional court to have won a long-disputed presidential election held in December, will take the […]
JASPREET KINDRA, Johannesburg | Friday ABOUT 2 000 political activists remain imprisoned under the Burmese military junta, which has renamed the South Asian country Myanmar. According to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, the military regime is running more than 43 forced labour camps. These camps are used for infrastructure and agricultural projects to profit […]
Kampala | Monday UP to 60 mourners have been shot dead in southern Sudan by suspected Ugandan rebels who forced them to eat a dead body they were about to bury, the Ugandan army charged on Sunday. Army representative Major Shaban Bantariza said that the attack took place on Friday on the ranges of mountain […]
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ANDILE NTINGI, Johannesburg | Friday SOUTH Africa’s main labour federation Cosatu said on Thursday it expected across-the-board above-CPI wage increases this year, fuelling concerns it will fire spiralling inflation. The country’s central bank has highlighted wage rises as a key threat to its efforts to quash inflation pressures caused by the rand’s steep slide last […]
Pretoria | Saturday LEADERS of a new alliance between rebels and political parties in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will next week meet South African President Thabo Mbeki and UN envoys engaged in a peace mission to the Great Lakes, rebel leader Adolphe Onusumba said on Friday. Onusumba, the president of the Rwandan-backed Congolese […]
Harare | Tuesday ZIMBABWE’S President Robert Mugabe, faced with national famine, has declared a ”state of disaster” across the country, according to official documents issued on Tuesday. The proclamation gives the government powers to take extraordinary measures to bring relief to over 600000 people facing critical food shortages. It also puts the government in a […]
Pretoria | Tuesday SOUTH Africans will have to fasten their seatbelts for the single highest increase in the retail petrol price in the past two years and pay 29c more for every litre from Wednesday, the Department of Minerals and Energy said on Monday. The wholesale price of diesel would surge by 26c/litre and that […]