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19 May 2013
                       
 
 
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25 Apr 2013
 
 
SA: Maite Nkoana-Mashabane: Address by the Minister for International Relations and Cooperation, on the occasion of the general assembly debate on peaceful resolution of conflicts in Africa, Cape Town (25/04/2013)
SPEECH
In a month’s time it will exactly be 50th years since our leaders formed the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). I would therefore like to take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude...
 
 
03 Sep 2012
 
 
 
Daily podcast – September 3, 2012.
PODCAST
South African prosecutors provisionally withdrew murder charges on Sunday against 270 miners who had been accused of killing 34 striking colleagues shot dead by police. However, they said they...
 
 
19 Sep 2011
 
AU: Statement by the African Union on Libya (19/09/2011)
STATEMENTS
The Chairperson of the African Union H E Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of Equatorial Guinea, received a briefing from the Ad Hoc Committee of the AU Peace and Security Council regarding...
 
 
01 Jul 2011
 
News this week
UPDATE
The Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP) toll fee steering committee puts forward new, lower toll tariffs for the 185 km of road improved under the GFIP. These tariffs still have to be...
 
 
22 Oct 2010
 
 
 
Daily podcast - October 22, 2010
PODCAST
In today's podcast, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan says that SA's economic growth may be better than forecast; a UN rapporteur says that small farmers are being hurt as pressure on arable land...
 
 
05 Nov 2009
 
 
 
Daily podcast - November 5, 2009
PODCAST
In today's podcast, President Jacob Zuma visits Equatorial Guinea; SADC leaders meet over Zimbabwe crisis; and, the ITUC says that Southern African countries largely violate workers' rights.
 
 
16 Jul 2008
 
New energy minister in revamped Equatorial Guinea cabinet
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has named a new cabinet, switching the experienced finance minister into the strategic energy portfolio of the oil-producing West African...
 
 
08 Jul 2008
 
Briton jailed for 34 years for Equatorial Guinea coup plot
AFRICA
A court in Equatorial Guinea on Monday sentenced British mercenary Simon Mann to 34 years and four months in prison for his confessed role in a failed 2004 coup plot in the oil-producing West...
 
 
13 Mar 2008
 
News this week
Newsletter - News this Week
CAPE TOWN - The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) insists that Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence came to "incorrect conclusions" in its report on the...
 
 
12 Mar 2008
 
Briton admits Equatorial Guinea coup plot
INTERNATIONAL
A British mercenary admitted in an interview broadcast on Tuesday he plotted to oust Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo in 2004 but the "swashbuckling"...
 
 
01 Feb 2008
 
Nigeria backs int'l force to protect offshore oil
INTERNATIONAL
Nigeria wants to see faster action towards creating an international naval force to protect the offshore oil industry in the Gulf of Guinea, President Umaru Yar'Adua has said. Violence...
 
 
Zimbabwe deports Briton over coup plot charge
AFRICA
A former British special forces officer, who has been in prison in Zimbabwe, was deported to Equatorial Guinea to face coup plot charges soon after losing a legal appeal against extradition, his...
 
 
31 Jan 2008
 
Zimbabwe court rules Briton can be extradited
ZIMBABWE
Zimbabwe's High Court ruled on Wednesday that a former British special forces officer could be extradited to Equatorial Guinea to face coup plot charges, rejecting arguments that he might be...
 
 
12 Mar 2004
 
Zim charges laid against ‘mercenaries’
News
So far only charges relating to immigration, firearms and aviation offences have been considered against 67 people who have been warned of facing the death penalty if found to be mercenaries in a...
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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