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At least one person was killed on Tuesday as Senegalese security forces armed with truncheons and tear gas clashed with rock-throwing activists protesting against President Abdoulaye Wade's...
Let me take this opportunity to thank you for participating in this important debate on the relationship between the UN and Regional Organisations and in particular the African Union.
The death of Guinea Bissau President Malam Bacai Sanha will be a stress test for the coup-prone West African state, which has made modest gains in stability in recent months after decades of turmoil.
The contribution of South Africa’s mining and manufacturing sectors is likely to remain weak in 2012, Absa Capital argued in its latest quarterly economic outlook, in which the bank also cut it...
The two-week-long seventeenth Conference of the Parties (COP 17) came to an end in Durban this weekend with a fund launched to help poor nations fight climate change, countries agreeing to...
The constant scrutiny of government appointments, policies and lifestyles shows that checks and balances are in place in South Africa, an anti-corruption summit heard in Johannesburg on Friday.
Today at 12.00 Speaker of South Africa’s National Assembly, Mr Max Sisulu met with Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon during the COP17 climate change conference that is...
The world's three biggest polluters China, the US and India refused to move towards a new legal commitment to curb their carbon emissions, increasing the risk that climate talks will fail to clinch...