THE poorest country in Europe, Albania, has grown into a major transit point for the drug traffic between Asia and the west.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi, who is on a roadshow to drum up support in southern Africa, spent Saturday with Swaziland’s King Mswati III hunting and watching a traditional reed dance.
NORWAY announced on Thursday it would provide 4 million euros (,6-million) to help alleviate the humanitarian crisis in war-ravaged Angola.
ZIMBABWE’S finance minister, Simba Makoni, said on Wednesday that government would normalise the situation in its farming areas, wracked by violent farm invasions for more than two years.
Gene researchers have ripped the mask off a strain of hospital superbug that is becoming resistant to all but the toughest antibiotics.
South African Airways (SAA) has placed Africa’s largest single jetliner order and has formalised the acquisition of 41 new Airbus aircraft which will be used to modernise its entire fleet.
Some 200 hardcore Jewish settlers continued to defy the army after two days of clashes in the West Bank Monday, creating tensions within Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s national unity government.
The death toll from the crash of a Ukrainian air force jet during an air show in western Ukraine has risen to 83 people, including 19 children.
President Robert Mugabe vowed to crack down on whites in Zimbabwe who oppose his policies and have defied eviction orders to abandon their farms.
President Thabo Mbeki and key ministers on Wednesday met a Freedom Front (FF) delegation for talks on issues including language, affirmative action and farm security.