Zimbabwe’s parliament on Wednesday rushed through amendments to land laws, giving the government of President Robert Mugabe a freer hand to seize white-owned property and evict farmers, state television reported.
There has been a ”wall of silence” from political parties in response to a request for them to disclose their private donors, researcher Richard Calland said on Thursday.
Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad said on Thursday he would be meeting the ambassadors of Russia, France and China to discuss the United Nations’ handling of the Iraqi situation.
The Okinawa government voted unanimously on Monday for a halt to all F-15 flights until an investigation determines why one of the US Air Force fighters crashed just off the southern Japanese island last month.
Two prominent lawmakers in Mozambique’s main opposition group Renamo said on Thursday they are leaving the party, deepening a rift among the former rebels ahead of local polls next year and general elections in 2004.
President Thabo Mbeki became the first recipient of South Africa’s new national orders on Monday.
Playwright and songwriter Mbongeni Ngema — barred by a court order from marketing his controversial song amaNdiya — has been granted permission by another judge to promote the record, Durban news reports have said.
Imre Kertesz, the Hungarian Holocaust survivor who has been awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature, has drawn heavily on his experiences in Auschwitz and Buchenwald to hold up a mirror to history.
President Joseph Kabila backed moves to renew the mandate of UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), but said failure to deploy sufficient forces would be ”a waste of time.”
South Africa’s Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin urged African business to forge closer ties and to take the conscious steps to help make African unity a reality.