Africa’s economic future and the challenge of uniting people and nations drew eminent politicians and scholars into a historic public debate in Nairobi on Thursday.
African science ministers are hoping to extend a high-speed fibre optic network - currently linking Egypt to the northern hemisphere - to other countries in Africa.
United Nations aid workers in eastern Madagascar are helping local officials mount relief efforts in the wake of Tropical Storm Hubert, which has killed dozens of people in the Indian Ocean country and left an estimated 11,000 others homeless.
The spotlight turned on the practice of journalism in Africa and its role in the evolution of a just and fair society, as the inaugural Pan African Media Conference got underway on Thursday.
The top United Nations official in the war-wracked Darfur region of western Sudan today welcomed an agreement between the national Government and a rebel group, calling it “another important milestone” on the path towards a comprehensive peace pact to end the deadly conflict that has engulfed the region for seven years.
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma says Zimbabwe’s leaders have agreed on “a package of measures” which could bring about “substantial” progress in implementing the agreement setting up their unity government.
A high-powered delegation of Ashanti chiefs and lawyers stormed the Sunyani Magistrate Court ‘B’ yesterday, in solidarity with the Tuobodomhene, Nana Baffour Asare III, who was allegedly kidnapped by the Techimanhene, Oseadeeyo Akumfi Ameyaw IV, at Wenchi recently.
FROM foreign exchange services to hotel soap suppliers, companies across SA are gearing up for a windfall during the Soccer World Cup. But some are looking dangerously overoptimistic, say analysts.
The African National Congress (ANC) in Parliament will today allow the Congress of the People (COPE) to bring a motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma to the floor of the National Assembly, but has warned it would mount a counter motion of full confidence in the president.
SA WILL have to rely on intelligence to detect any security threats during the Fifa World Cup because it has no capacity to monitor all movement across its borders, defence analyst Helmoed Heitman says.
