A programme to recover weapons, transform them into artwork, and then trade them for tools may help create a "culture of peace" in Mozambique.
Citizens from 26 African countries will be barred from arriving in Malaysia through land and sea borders under tough new regulations published on Friday.
Vodacom, together with the Readucate Trust, is turning prisons into institutions of learning
South African farmers this winter harvested the country’s first crop of genetically modified (GM) maize aimed at human consumption.
Shaken by the "savagery" of market reaction to a leaked black empowerment charter, the government has elevated the issue of empowerment in mining beyond the exclusive remit of Minister of Minerals and Energy Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.
Malawi President Bakili Muluzi has finally accepted a narrow defeat he suffered when parliament rejected the controversial bill that was designed to scrap presidential term limits in the country.
The Malawi government has failed to account for seven million dollars out of a $52-million budget support package from the European Union.
Malawi’s congested 23 prisons, home to about 8 000 convicts but with a capacity of 4 500, are "hell on earth", a high court judge said in a newspaper interview published on Saturday.
EGYPTIAN President Hosni Mubarak on Sunday cancelled the grand opening later this month of the New Alexandria Library, charging that Israel had spoiled the party because of its military offensive.<br>
Sporadic clashes continued on Saturday in the Republic of Congo capital, Brazzaville, between a diehard militia group and government forces, a day after fighting left 60 militiamen dead.