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Senior aides to Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi made a rare visit to Tehran for talks with Iran on an Islamic initiative to seek a peaceful solution to Syria's civil war, the two sides said on...
State-owned electricity utility Eskom has agreed with labour and contractors at the strike-prone Medupi coal-fired power station project, in Lephalale, Limpopo, to renegotiated the project labour...
Former anti-apartheid activist Mamphela Ramphele will make a formal announcement on her political plans next Monday. FTI Consulting said that Ramphele would make her announcement at the Women's...
The year 2012 proved to be a mixed experience for Egypt and President Mohamed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood-led government. While Morsi received both regional and international compliments for his...
The year 2012 proved to be a mixed experience for Egypt and President Mohamed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood-led government. While Morsi received both regional and international compliments for his...
The UN Security Council will soon begin discussing a possible United Nations peacekeeping force for Mali. This is an idea the world body had been uncomfortable with before France's recent military...
Former Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon says that South Africa's democratic and constitutional health relies on a more competitive political sphere. He said that the sooner this happens, the...
The Democratic Alliances' shadow Finance Minister Tim Harris said on Sunday that the dominant faction of the ruling African National Congress believes in State capitalism.
A number of African countries have attempted to consolidate their democracies by scheduling presidential and Parliamentary elections in 2012. Egypt’s Parliamentary and presidential elections...
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela said on Wednesday that the tenders awarded to On-Point Engineering by the Limpopo transport department were unlawful. She found that On-Point and former African...
Meles Zenawi Asres, Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 1995, died in Belgium on 20 August 2012 after he contracted an infection following an operation to remove a brain tumour.(2) He had not been...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reassured Egypt's new Islamist president on Monday that the US would forge ahead with plans to expand economic assistance. This is despite anti-American protests...
The United Nations Security Council and the international community should not place too much hope in the impossible mission Lakhdar Brahimi has assumed, taking over from Kofi Annan as the new...
The International Monetary Fund (or IMF) has welcomed South Africa’s renewed drive to invest in public infrastructure. However, it says a “rigorous but prompt” assessment of key projects is...