Labour inspections on most farms were often difficult to carry out as farmers denied government officials access to their properties, the inquiry into human rights violations on farming communities heard on Wednesday.
A series of powerful explosions has torn through a local army munitions depot and destroyed international aid buildings in southern Afghanistan, with one aid worker putting the death toll from the blasts at 32.
Palestinian losses in agriculture in nearly two years of confrontations with Israel have reached one billion dollars.
Money, usually too tight to mention in the dusty central Kenyan town of Nanyuki, flowed freely this week as cattle herders finally came into British compensation for half a century of deaths and
injuries on local live-fire ranges.
African parliamentarians are to meet in Cotonou, Benin, on Tuesday and Wednesday to consider implementation of the new Partnership for African Development (Nepad), acting president of the forum of African Parliamentarians, Guy-Amedee Ajonoun, said on Sunday.
THE grieving families of Kano buried their dead on Monday, consigning many to a mass grave two days after an airliner crashed into the northern Nigerian city, flattening homes and killing 149 people.
Swaziland’s absolute monarch King Mswati III has introduced legislation that imposes stringent measures to suppress dissent.
A South African pilot has been arrested for allegedly trying to sneak Zambia’s former spy chief out of his country, newspapers reported on Sunday.
When the people of Kano celebrate the birthday of Abdulkadir Jilani, founder of a medieval Islamic sect, it has all the appearance of a serious religious festival.
Lawyers for Zambia’s ex-president Frederick Chiluba on Thursday defended their client’s right to keep the immunity from prosecution he enjoyed while in office, which parliament voted to lift earlier this year.