CHANGES in the UN sanctions regime against Iraq will not stop Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from acquiring material that can be converted to military use, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Friday.
One hundred and fifty more bodies have been found around the wreck of a ferry that sank off west Africa with almost 800 people aboard, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade said Saturday.
The G8 summit in Canada this week provides a singular
opportunity for developed countries to help break the cycle of African underdevelopment, South African President Thabo Mbeki wrote in the New York Times on Monday.
Dealing with the right-wing threat in the country should include a kind of political solution besides arresting the bomb planters, Martin Schonteich, a senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies, said on Thursday.
African political parties are to blame for the slow growth of multi-party democracy on the continent, top Kenyan minister and ruling party official Raila Odinga said on Thursday night.
Peace talks between the government of Burundi and rebels embroiled in a nine-year civil war are finally set to begin next week, a Tanzanian official said on Friday.
President Thabo Mbeki had promised traditional leaders their powers would not be reduced, but the Communal Land Rights Bill did exactly that, says Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa chairman Patekile Holomisa.
UN authorities are trying to locate 50 Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) citizens who had gathered for UN police training, amid reports that scores of policemen had been slaughtered in the country’s rebel-held east.
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Pro-Palestinian activists seem to have hijacked the civil society march on the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg.
The only human contact Peter Shaw was allowed during the past four months was the sight of his kidnappers’ hands passing food down into the dank, underground hole where he lay chained at the neck.