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This paper discusses how drug trafficking in West Africa causes severe economic, social, political and public health problems across the whole region. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime...
Chad's President Idriss Deby, a survivor of countless rebellions, has stepped into a void left by Africa's traditional heavyweights and turned his desert nation into a powerbroker as France...
Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel said on Tuesday the total value of rigged construction industry projects being investigated by the Competition Commission is much higher than expected,...
The Tunisian army and police were hunting more than 30 suspected al-Qaeda linked militants close to the border with Algeria on Tuesday, and President Moncef Marzouki travelled to the area to...
The Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Ms Elizabeth Thabethe says Infrastructure Development and skills transfer is vital for Africa’s growth and development. Deputy Minister was speaking at...
South Africa and Algeria have agreed on the necessity of accelerating the establishment of the Joint Trade and Investment Committee (JTIC). The JTIC will focus engagement across both the public and...
The Department of Trade and Industry’s pavilion at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair romped home with the Best Stand Award for the second successive year. In a prestigious ceremony held in...
Libya's central government has long had only a tenuous grip on the eastern city of Benghazi, but the bombing of the French embassy in Tripoli shows its control of the capital may now also be under...
Sweeping political and economic changes over the last half century have set the stage for Africa’s emergence as a global economic power, and the continent should take advantage of that...
Our countries are deeply concerned about the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons. While this has been known since nuclear weapons were first developed and is reflected in...
Diplomats said on Tuesday the US had dropped demands for human rights observers in Western Sahara, paving the way for a compromise that would allow the UN mission in the disputed territory to...
A car bomb in Tripoli wounded two French guards at France's embassy in Libya on Tuesday, bringing new violence to the capital, which has not seen attacks on diplomats like that which killed the US...
African finance ministers told their rich nation counterparts at weekend meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to work harder and faster to kick-start their economies to avoid...
France signalled on Friday it would push to modify a US proposal to the United Nations to allow UN peacekeepers to monitor human rights in the disputed Western Sahara before deciding which way it...
The response to the crisis in Mali has revealed the shortcomings of the multilateral security architecture in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the African Union (AU) and the...