Triumphant fighters marched up and down as dazed and frightened patients in Sirte’s main hospital lay crammed into a ground floor corridor.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says private healthcare is a ‘brutal system’ because it has commercialised an essential service.
Liberia buzzed with election fever as Nobel laureates, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and women’s activist Leymah Gbowee took to the streets.
Safa has lodged an appeal with the Confederation of African Football regarding the outcome of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying competition.
Gauteng Legislature speaker Lindiwe Maseko has cancelled a debate on toll roads scheduled for this week because the ANC is divided on the issue.
High-ranking ANC officials visited China this week in what could be seen as the party’s unreserved support for Beijing.
Rebel groups fighting over diamond mines in the Central African Republic have signed a ceasefire, ending weeks of deadly violence.
A unit of state-owned freight company Transnet has opened a line to transport magnetite for export after disruptions caused by damage to a bridge.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will thrash out differences with French President Nicolas Sarkozy over how to use the eurozone’s financial fire power.
President Bashar al-Assad has renewed a pledge of reforms as Syria threatened retaliation if countries recognised an opposition bloc.