The use and export of anti-personnel landmines had fallen drastically since a global treaty to ban the scourge was adopted in Ottawa in 1999.
Africa needs to create some 100-million jobs in the next ten years to give work to new entrants into the labour market, says the International Labour Office.
The president of the Republic of Congo said central African nations are focused on using their oil resources to draw business investment, rather than ”passively waiting” for new aid promised by industrialised countries.
Major western donor nations on Monday warned President Bakili Muluzi of Malawi to think twice before considering a controversial amendment to the constitution that would allow him to stand for a third term.
Three in 10 young people cannot find the Pacific ocean. Hint: it covers one third of the planet on a world map.
Four people including two children were shot and wounded by two gunmen in Lenton Road, Bishop Lavis in Cape Town on Wednesday, Western Cape police said
Keith Uncapher, a computer pioneer at the University of Southern California who was a key player in the development of the Internet, died of a heart attack, the university announced. He was 80.
West African peace-makers struggled to hold together a
cease-fire deal on Friday in rebellion-divided Ivory Coast — while rebels accused loyalists of readying their long-threatened counterattack under cover of the truce talks.
A Hong Kong supermarket chain said on Saturday it has halted the sale of dog meat in its branches in China after customer protests.
Maximum access was necessary to dispel any suspicion of a cover-up in the probe into South Africa’s multi-billion rand arms deal, a Pretoria High Court Judge said on Friday.