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The European Union will pledge more than half a billion euros to help Mali rebuild after months of conflict, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Tuesday. "Tomorrow we will...
This month’s report includes details of Canadian gold miner Kinross Gold’s prefeasibility study to expand its Tasiast gold mine, in Mauritania; Aim-listed Weatherly International’s...
Government, business and labour have agreed to setting aside specific jobs for young South Africans in particular industry sectors as part of a broader six-pronged Youth Employment Accord. The...
Mauritania will send 1 800 troops to Mali as part of a planned UN force to keep the peace in the West African nation after a French-led offensive that has ousted Islamist rebels from the desert...
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...
At the beginning of May 2012, there were some 130 000 internally displaced persons in Mali and approximately 190 000 refugees in neighbouring Algeria, Burkina Faso, Mauritania and Niger. Currently,...
In an apparent attempt to replicate their successes of last year, Islamist rebels in northern Mali launched fresh attacks on government positions in early January. These attacks resulted in another...
The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) were adopted by the United Nations in 2001 as key targets for the developing world. These goals are also commonly accepted as a framework for measuring...
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...
Any foreign-backed offensive to retake control of northern Mali from al Qaeda-linked Islamists will take at least six months to prepare, plans seen by Reuters show, a delay that runs counter to the...
A new survey by the National Business Initiative has found that over 61% of the participating large companies spent between R2-million and R35-million each during the 2010/11 financial year...
I stand before you today as a humble servant of the African continent and its people, ready - together with the newly elected Commissioners - to join the hundreds of African Union Commission staff,...
South African electricity utility Eskom has finalised a draft African strategy, which could result it in taking equity as well as operational positions in generation and transmission projects in...
The international community should not shirk its responsibility in assisting the people and governments of the region to deal with these challenges. These include increased levels of drugs trade,...
Mali’s interim president Diouncounda Traore has formally requested the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to provide military assistance to stabilise the country, and especially...