Burkina Faso will host international meningitis experts to a meeting in July to discuss and adopt a global response to recurrent outbreaks of the disease.
The UN Security Council on Wednesday extended for another six months the global ban on the direct and indirect importation of all rough diamonds from Sierra Leone. However, rough diamonds under the control of the Sierra Leonean government would continue to be exempt under the certificate of origin regime started in July 2000.
A Tunisian online journalist arrested after publishing writings critical of the ruling regime is set to appear in court marking the first trial of an online dissident in the north African country.
The whereabouts of 46 Sierra Leoneans abducted by unidentified men from Liberia over the past two weeks remains unknown.
The organisation representing members of Mozambique’s ailing cashew nut processing industry wants the World Bank to help it out of difficulties it claims were caused by the Bank’s liberalisation policy.
Nearly 150 people have been killed and nearly 175 000 forced to flee their homes in eastern Africa because of torrential downpours in the region.
NOW more than ever, films can help foster understanding and respect among people around the world, says Nelson Mandela.
Malawi President Bakili Muluzi has finally accepted a narrow defeat he suffered when parliament rejected the controversial bill that was designed to scrap presidential term limits in the country.
The United States has eased arms export restrictions imposed earlier this year against Zimbabwe to allow US hunters to bring firearms into the country.
Malawi’s oldest newspaper house, Blantyre Newspapers Limited, (BNL) has suspended its leading editor apparently for criticising government over-expenditure.
A visiting team of Argentinean forensic experts said on Wednesday they would identify mass graves from Sierra Leone’s brutal decade-long civil war and open them to determine how the victims died.
An editor and reporter from Zimbabwe’s <I>The Standard</I> newspaper have been summoned by the police and questioned over pictures of prostitutes.
Increasing ecological destruction and changes in land use around Mt Kenya, Africa’s second-highest mountain, are bringing severe pressure to bear on the mountain’s rivers, thereby placing millions whose livelihoods depend on their waters at risk.
The Malawi government has failed to account for seven million dollars out of a $52-million budget support package from the European Union.
The pending settlement of a land dispute case in northern KwaZulu-Natal could become an example for the rest of South Africa, which, like its neighbour Zimbabwe, is faced with a need to conduct land reform.
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The Social Movements Indaba was gearing up on Wednesday for a mass rally against the World Summit on Sustainable Development at the Alexandra Stadium.<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?a=11&o=7974">Water and energy on the Summit agenda</a><br>
The lives of more than six-million children are at immediate risk in Malawi, Zambia, Lesotho, Swaziland and Mozambique due to a crippling combination of drought, hunger, illness and HIV/Aids.
Malawi’s congested 23 prisons, home to about 8 000 convicts but with a capacity of 4 500, are "hell on earth", a high court judge said in a newspaper interview published on Saturday.
Swazi men, from parliamentarians to soccer officials, are flocking to elongate their penises but women in the southern African kingdom are not impressed, a weekend report said.
Japan has donated $2,85-million to fight polio in Nigeria, one of a handful of countries still battling to stamp out the killer disease.
As Tony Yengeni bids to have the charges against him dismissed, a picture is emerging of a broader political struggle which appears to be the impetus behind much of the focus on Yengeni and his associates.
Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has won landslide approval for constitutional changes that would allow him to remain in power.
US attorney Ed Fagan said he planned to initiate a class action lawsuit in the US against Switzerland’s two biggest banks and a US bank on behalf of victims of South Africa’s former apartheid regime.
Amnesty International has asked the Mauritanian government to take "practical steps" to end slavery, saying that it still existed despite its legal abolition 20 years ago.
Peace talks between Madagascar’s elected President Marc Ravalomanana and political rival Didier Ratsiraka broke up on Sunday without agreement.
Africa has fared badly once again this year in providing a better life for its people, according to the UN’s latest human development indicators.
EGYPTIAN President Hosni Mubarak on Sunday cancelled the grand opening later this month of the New Alexandria Library, charging that Israel had spoiled the party because of its military offensive.<br>
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on UN Security Council members to take a comprehensive approach to ending the bloodshed and repression in Liberia, the US-based watchdog reported.
North Korea put its nuclear weapons programme on the negotiating table yesterday by demanding a non-aggression treaty with its greatest enemy, the US, in return for an easing of "security concerns".
WITH the United States gearing up for war against Iraq and the growing risk that the spiralling Israeli-Palestinian conflict may spill over into the whole region, the Middle East stands at a crossroads.
The South African rand reached a new best level for 2002 in early trade on Tuesday as it broke below R9 per dollar to R8,9505.
A scorched earth campaign of war has resulted in thousands of Angolans dying of hunger, now a war of words has broken out between humanitarian agencies.