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.
WHILE sons are more coveted than daughters in a number of cultures around the world, pregnant women hoping for a son might want to reconsider.
Traditional leaders will not have powers equal to those of democratically elected lawmakers, according to a draft white paper on the role of amakhosi, released in Pretoria on Tuesday.
An alleged paedophile brought his trial in the Pretoria High Court to a temporary halt with an angry, tearful outburst in which he described the investigating officer in his case as a liar and threatened to get even with him.
Education minister Kader Asmal has withdrawn conditions banning newspapers from making any editorial comment on the initial matriculation results released by his department later this year.