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.
A scandal over a paedophile ring run from a state orphanage gripped Portugal yesterday as it threatened to engulf diplomats, media personalities and senior politicians.
A Zambian court ruled on Friday that former president Frederick Chiluba can be stripped of his immunity to face charges of corruption, in a sharp reversal of fortune for a man who had entered office as a populist reformer.
The Miss World beauty pageant may be the world’s most watched television spectacle, but this year it will not be seen in part of the country hosting it, Nigeria, an official said.
Spectrum Organic Products Inc. works so hard to ensure the food it sells is free from genetically modified organisms that it sends employees as far as France to purchase corn oil guaranteed to be untainted by biotechnology.
The National Development Agency (NDA) will spend R2,5-million in an effort to improve the lives of the San communities of the Kalahari and Schmidtsdrift in the Northern Cape.
Screaming for help and gasping for air, countless victims of Africa’s deadliest ferry disaster survived for hours in the overturned MS Joola, rescue divers said Monday — describing scenes of horror in air pockets that had kept the vessel afloat.
Sporting a red cap, jeans, a Rambo-style T-shirt and a Kalashnikov, 17-year-old Liberian rebel Jimmy, a combatant for the past seven years, is one of the many young self-proclaimed ”freedom fighters” in this west African country.