A <i>BBC</i> radio editor who wrote a newspaper column criticising a pro-fox hunting demonstration in London has been told to give up the column or face dismissal.
Angola’s finance minister denied a humanitarian group’s charges that $1-billion had gone missing from the African nation’s budget last year.
The South African railway company Spoornet has begun assessing Mozambique’s Ressano Garcia railway line as it prepares to take over this important route linking the two neighbouring states.
As Tony Yengeni bids to have the charges against him dismissed, a picture is emerging of a broader political struggle which appears to be the impetus behind much of the focus on Yengeni and his associates.
THE International Red Cross on Thursday launched an appeal for 6,8-million Swiss francs ($4,2-million, 4,6-million euros) to provide support for about 450 000 Aids sufferers threatened by southern Africa’s worsening food crisis.
Experts are aiming to tap Africa’s massive underground resources to tackle the continent’s water crisis.
The capital of the Central African Republic (CAR) remained tense on Tuesday on the fifth day of clashes between government forces and insurgents trying to oust President Ange Felix Patasse.
Doubts are growing in the west African country of Togo that President Gnassingbe Eyadema, in power for 36 years, will actually respect a pledge to step down in 2003.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on UN Security Council members to take a comprehensive approach to ending the bloodshed and repression in Liberia, the US-based watchdog reported.
The retail petrol price in South Africa should drop by 18 cents per litre (c/l), the latest data from the
Department of Minerals and Energy shows. An official announcement is expected on Monday, December 2.