Two oxen being loaded for export at East London’s harbour on Monday night gave officials the run around when they escaped.
The Desai Commission wound up its public hearings on Friday with testimony from a wealthy German businessman on how he bankrolled Cape Town mayor Gerald Morkel.
In a workshop with soot-covered walls, feeble rays of sunlight struggle against the dust in which 11-year-old Nasser stirs a basin full of sweets destined for other children living, like him, in poverty in Afghanistan.
Corrupt leaders have looted some -billion from Africa in the last three or four decades, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said, citing this as the main reason for poverty in Africa.
Getting a court case disposed off in Ghana has sometimes been very slow, making many Ghanaians weary of the time it took to conclude a matter in the High Court.
The band of heavily armed Chechen rebels holding hundreds of hostages at a Moscow theatre agreed early on Friday to free all 75 foreigners held captive, the first major breakthrough in the crisis as the siege entered its second day.
Iraqi minders have promised journalists in English that they can go wherever they want, even the enormous presidential palace. But, in Arabic, the minders said to one another that there was no way they were taking journalists anywhere within sight of the palace.
The Ivory Coast government was preparing on Friday to strike at rebels holding the towns of Bouake and Korhogo as France continued to pull out foreigners after last week’s attempted coup.
Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi for the first time in his 24 years in power on Thursday skipped marking the day he assumed power in the east African country.
The Pretoria High Court reserved judgement on Wednesday in the application by jailed Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging leader Eugene Terre’Blanche to have his sentence converted to correctional supervision.