Duterte last year declared the Philippines’ "separation" from the United States.
Ukraine’s president has announced a ceasefire agreement with Russia, shortly before Nato’s deadline for a decision on involvement in the region.
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/ 25 January 2007
South African telephone subscribers, enraged by high rates charged by fixed-line provider Telkom, are turning on the government and on Telkom. Analysts attack Telkom regularly, complaining of high charges, especially for access to the internet, and warn that this could obstruct South Africa from achieving targeted annual growth of 6% from 2010.
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/ 15 January 2006
Sales of new cars in South Africa have reached all-time highs, boosted by an emerging black middle class, once under apartheid’s thumb and now playing an increasingly important role in the economy. The National Automobile Association of South Africa announced this week that car sales figures for the first time shot past the half-a-million-mark in 2005.
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/ 23 September 2005
San Bushmen living in the new settlement of New Xade outside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) say they feel cut off from their homeland and from the tourism dollars flowing to one of Botswana’s top destinations. About 2 000 Bushmen have resettled in New Xade, set up in 1997 west of the reserve, living in wooden huts and small houses.
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/ 13 September 2005
A failure to find consensus on proposed reforms of the United Nations Security Council has snuffed Africa’s hopes to see its voice being heard louder within the international organisation, analysts said on Tuesday. "There are a lot of losers, there is Africa," said Tom Wheeler, of the South African Institute for International Affairs.