After more than 450 years of oppressive foreign rule, East Timor is preparing a huge party to celebrate its accession to nationhood.
A MAN brandishing a machete and threatening to commit suicide on the anniversary of reggae star Bob Marley’s death was talked out of it by Guinea’s Interior Minister Clemente Engonga Nguema.
Gabonese President Omar Bongo has condemned the attempt to oust the ”legitimate authorities” in the Central African Republic (CAR) after fighting broke out there last week, the state-run L’Union newspaper reported on Monday.
Three more independent journalists were arrested in Zimbabwe and charged on Thursday over reports in the latest issue of The Sunday Standard that criticised the police.
Foreign nationals have exploited shortfalls in Namibian legislation to acquire land in the country, Lands, Resettlement and Rehabilitation Minister Hifikepunye Lukas Pohamba said this week.
Two New National Party MPs were served with a summons on Monday, relating to a R1-million defamation lawsuit launched by DA leader Tony Leon.
The United States, pushing to expand economic ties with sub-Saharan Africa, has held good talks on a proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with southern African countries and hopes to launch formal negotiations early next year, US Commerce Secretary Don Evans said Friday.
Former president Nelson Mandela, commenting on the much-publicised spat between tripartite alliance partners, came out in full support of President Thabo Mbeki and the African National Congress (ANC).
The beauty queens had only been gone a few hours, forced to flee Nigeria by raging violence. But as the Rev Joseph Hayab raised his hands to preach in Kaduna, northern Nigeria, thoughts of Miss World were an eternity away.
A call by Zimbabwe’s leading civic rights body for a national stayaway in protest against President Robert Mugabe’s rule appeared to go unheeded on Tuesday, reports in Harare suggested.