ZIMBABWE raises the most concerns of any African country and peaceful political change there is "almost inconceivable," says a report by the International Institute of Strategic Studies.
Thousands are starving in a nation that until this year boasted that its traditional social system never let a single Swazi go hungry.
North Korea put its nuclear weapons programme on the negotiating table yesterday by demanding a non-aggression treaty with its greatest enemy, the US, in return for an easing of "security concerns".
Kenya reluctantly handed over key evidence in the suicide bombing of a Mombasa tourist hotel to Israeli investigators yesterday, and released the bodies of three of the 16 dead to their families for burial.<br>
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The pending settlement of a land dispute case in northern KwaZulu-Natal could become an example for the rest of South Africa, which, like its neighbour Zimbabwe, is faced with a need to conduct land reform.
For years, populations in northern Cameroon have had to live with bandits and the impact of banditry on economic activities, transport and ordinary people’s lives.
A visiting team of Argentinean forensic experts said on Wednesday they would identify mass graves from Sierra Leone’s brutal decade-long civil war and open them to determine how the victims died.
The former chief executive of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority was pushed into court in a hospital bed to hear a judge convict him on 13 counts of taking bribes from international firms.
THE village of Gumbi is semi-deserted, its people in rags and its larders bare. In the past few months there have been 17 deaths from hunger here. This should be harvest time, with the maize full in the fields, but the crops have either failed or been eaten unripe.
Sierra Leone’s new Truth and Reconciliation Commission intends to start receiving statements from the public and conducting hearings in October.