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Sudan accused South Sudan of having supported rebels who launched a major assault two weeks ago, warning this could derail recent oil and security agreements between the African neighbours, state...
The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s) latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) report forecasts a growth rate of 2.8%for South Africa during 2013, rising slightly to only 3.3% in 2014, owing to...
The recent escalation in fighting along the ill defined border between the Republic of Sudan and the Republic of South Sudan, has lead to both an increase in accusations and propaganda from the...
On the 9th of July 2011 the Republic of South Sudan gained legal sovereignty through independence. Scarcely six months later president Salva Kiir and the ruling Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement...
Iran’s nuclear programme has for a long time been at the centre of the world’s attention. Looking more closely at Iran’s position in the world, and the continuing diplomatic conflict between...
As the winds of change blow across North Africa, it is howling a firestorm in the direction of the conundrum that is Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. The longest serving leader in Africa and the Arab...
As a new wave of democratisation breaks on Africa’s northern shores, the common goals of the Maghreb’s people are hitting up against starkly different types of state. The situation in Libya is...
The price of petrol and diesel will rise sharply next week, with inland consumers set to pay 43c/l more for petrol and between 63c/l and 64c/l more for diesel from Wednesday.
The increases were...
In recent years, China has strengthened its economic ties with Africa through colossal investment in natural resources extraction, oil, infrastructure projects, construction, textile and other...
Libya suspended oil sales to Switzerland on Thursday over the arrest of a son of Muammar Gaddafi, shipping workers said, punishing what the OPEC member state called a "horrible crime" against its...
President Saddam Hussein is trapped between the demands of the UN
disarmament process that continues to sap his hold on power and the
threat of a US-led military offensive to oust him, diplomats...