Parliament wants to install a special system to monitor MPs attendance, at a cost of R3,5-million to the taxpayer.
At least 37 people died and 11 more are in critical condition following a fire in a Nigerian rubber goods factory, the Nigerian Red Cross said on Wednesday.
Special forces troops took control of a Moscow theatre in the early hours of Saturday morning where hundreds of hostages were being held by Chechen rebels, killing their leader and freeing all the captives.
There was a danger that quality could be sacrificed at the altar of speed and quantity as South Africa tried to speed up its land restitution process, National Land Commissioner Dr Wallace Mgoqi said on Wednesday.
REPRESENTATIVES of 12 Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) opposition groupings expressed the hope on Friday evening that all-embracing talks on that country’s future would resume as soon as possible.
The global media watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists has appealed to Gambian president Yahya Jammeh to reject the National Media Commission Bill 2002.
Rebels controlling the north of Ivory Coast said late on Wednesday government helicopters had attacked their positions in the western region of Vavoua.
James Kilgore, one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives, smiled and gave a thumbs-up sign to supporters Monday at a South African court hearing on plans to extradite him to the United States.
US financier George Soros is one of four men who will go on trial in Paris on Thursday on insider-trading charges relating to a failed take-over bid at the French bank Societe Generale 14 years ago.
Two of the architects of an ambitious rescue plan for Africa will take centre at the World Economic Forum in Durban.