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This week, until 25 November, diplomats from some 100 States will meet in Geneva for the Fourth Review Conference of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW). High on the agenda is a new...
The crumbling of North African (NA) regimes holds serious challenges for international law on the African continent. Traditional international law refrained from prescribing to states which forms...
The Presidency was unaware of plans to suspend national police commissioner General Bheki Cele, a spokesperson said yesterday, the World Bank said it was more than tripling funding to...
The French Territory of the Afars and the Issas became the Republic of Djibouti in June 1977. This barren land's location, bordering the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, is its main economic asset,...
The current famine in the Horn of Africa has again brought to our attention the interaction between climate change, food prices and extreme weather conditions on the African continent. The...
Striking South African municipal workers set fire to rubbish in Cape Town streets and looted roadside vendors yesterday, turning up the heat in labour disputes that have ripped through Africa's...
Arms controls continue to be flouted in the context of the Libyan armed conflict. Both France and Qatar have openly admitted to supplying arms to the rebels as a complementary strategy to the...
Amid the independence celebrations in Juba, South Sudan, on July 9, many observers might have overlooked the presence of representatives of Somaliland, a territory that hopes to imitate South...