The South African government has given strong signals that the country's energy intensity is no longer sustain-able and has started to outline its low-carbon-economy vision.
Angola, once one of the world's fastest-growing economies, is expected to expand between 6,5% and 7,5% in 2010 owing to higher oil prices from around zero last year, the World Bank said on Friday.
The US has intensified its criticism of Eritrea, saying that the Red Sea State systematically abuses human rights and is a destabilising influence in the Horn of Africa.
The US government has reportedly indicated to the South African government that it would abstain from the Eskom World Bank loan vote in early April, Public Enterprises Minister Barbara Hogan said...
President Jacob Zuma defended African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) leader Julius Malema in an interview published on Friday, saying that he had leadership qualities and cared about people.
The South African Central Bank's mandate has been extended to make explicit its role in maintaining financial stability, bank chief economist and advisor to the governor Monde Mnyande said on Friday.
The Medupi and Kusile coal-fired power stations are "completely" factored into South Africa's long-term aspirations to begin reducing its relative carbon emissions and there should, thus, be no...
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) called on Thursday for all United Nations (UN) troops to pull out in 2011, a move which human rights groups say would spell disaster for civilians caught up...