The Chadian government alleged that between 80 and 120 Chadians were ”massacred” on Thursday evening by presidential guards in the Central African Republic capital of Bangui, where CAR government forces have quashed a rebellion.
Talks about transitional government arrangements in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been temporarily suspended, South African Provincial and Local Government Minister Sydney Mufamadi said on Saturday.
The fortification of maize meal to combat HIV/Aids and the food crisis in southern Africa topped the agenda at a two-day United Nations meeting in Johannesburg, UNAIDS said on Thursday.
Uhuru Kenyatta owes a lot to his name. Less than a year after entering politics, the 42-year-old son of Kenya’s founding father will fight the presidential election next month for the party which has ruled for almost 40 years.
Beauty queens from more than 80 nations jetted into Nigeria to compete in the Miss World pageant, defying calls for a boycott to protest death-by-stoning sentences imposed on Nigerian Muslim women for having sex outside marriage.
South Africa’s two top judges on Tuesday slammed the Swazi government for failing to respect the rule of law, saying that the country’s six judges of appeal were left with no choice other than to resign.
BRENDA tried to stop me from telling the truth this week. I kept her at bay with a new stick that my neighbour, Ted, had carved for me. The woman was shrieking like some cursed banshee…
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was heading late on Monday for Washington and tough talks with US President George Bush, who has demanded he ease Palestinian suffering and rising civilian death tolls ahead of a possible US campaign against Iraq.
An Islamist cleric with Taliban sympathies was last night poised to become Pakistan’s next prime minister after the country’s religious groups agreed to form a coalition government with an alliance dominated by Benazir Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s party.
George Bush’s presidency emerged triumphant on both foreign and domestic stages yesterday, as a UN deal was effectively brokered on a concerted hardline stance towards Iraq, and after Republicans seized total control of Congress in midterm elections.