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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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"...
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...
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...
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...
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...