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African solidarity and autonomy were in the spotlight in May when the African Union (AU) celebrated the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Organisation of African Unity, the AU’s...
The IGAD Executive Secretary Engineer Mahboub Muaalim condemned the attack by Misserya elements on a convoy of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) and a delegation of Ngok...
In January 2012, South Sudan stopped oil production after it failed to reach an agreement with Sudan on transit fees.(2) The dispute crippled the economies of both Sudan and South Sudan and fuelled...
President Jacob Zuma welcomed the recent visit to Juba by Sudan's President Omar Al-Bashir to meet with his South Sudanese counterpart, President Salva Kiir Mayardit. This historic meeting marked...
On Friday 15 February 2013, the High Court of Kenya finally made a ruling on the suitability of the Jubilee Alliance presidential candidate, Uhuru Kenyatta, to contest the March 4 elections. In its...
With estimates of the death toll in Syria climbing to over 60 000 as of January 2013, it is worth questioning the deadlock in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) that has lasted nearly two...
On 9 July 2011, the world’s newest nation was born. The Republic of Sudan had been in conflict for the majority of its independence since 1956. South Sudan gained its autonomy from the North...
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...
Africa needed to find solutions to counter its array of problems, newly-elected AU commission chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Wednesday.
"If we don't find those solutions, who is going...
Negotiations between the Republics of South Sudan and Sudan currently taking place in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa under the auspices of the African Union High Level Implementation Panel on...
The decision by the South Sudanese Government to shut down oil production in January 2012 proved to be the spark that has again ignited armed confrontation between the two new neighbours. In April,...
Malawi’s announcement that it has cancelled plans to host the African Union (AU) summit in July sent shockwaves across the continent with allegations of defiance levelled against the government...
President Jacob Zuma quashes any hopes that the planned Gauteng e-tolling system will dropped by government. "The Gauteng economy cannot afford any impediment to the traffic flow, since such an...
ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema lodged an appeal against his recent sentence by the party with the ANC's national disciplinary committee of appeal late yesterday afternoon, SABC news...
Since its birth, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has had Africa as its most substantial client base. This can be interpreted as evidence of the poor governance systems that remain prevalent...