Outstanding issues delaying peace in the Great Lakes region will be the focus of a meeting between four African leaders in Cape Town on Wednesday.
The Nepad peer review mechanism is a voluntary process and nine countries have signed up for the review, Professor Wiseman Nkuhlu, says the chairman of the Nepad Steering Committee.
Ousted deputy social services minister David Malatsi has gone to court in a bid to force the New National Party (NNP) to make him a member of parliament.
Nigeria’s President Olusegun Obasanjo, a gruff, combative ex-general, has just come out of his toughest year in politics but as polling day looms he is confident of re-election.
The pace of housing delivery appears to be slowing down, according to the Intergovernmental Fiscal Review (IGFR), released on Tuesday.
Initial tests conducted to determine if a Pretoria businessman has the deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) have come back negative although officials have not ruled out that the man is carrying the virus.
Most of the top leadership of Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is facing criminal charges following a government crackdown.
"In a Dark Time", a documentary film about sexual abuse in Zimbabwe perpetrated by pro-government militia, premiered last week at Witwatersrand University. The event sought to alert academics and human rights activists about gender-based human rights abuses, like gang rape and sexual torture.
World Trade Organisation (WTO) member countries involved in agricultural trade negotiations in Geneva are far from reaching compromise on a number of key issues.