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Festival goers prepare thyselves: this year's music line-up is guaranteed to perforate eardrums.

There's a host of comedians you just can't afford to miss at the Fringe this year.

Street artists who play to the public on pathways, alleys and verges during the National Arts Festival will stand taller this year.

Andrew Buckland, a Festival stalwart and South African physical theatre icon, recently returned from a year-long contract performing with the celebrated Cirque du Soleil company in Las Vegas, in the Beatles-themed entertainment spectacular, Love.

The population of the western Mozambican province of Tete grew by 56 per cent between the censuses of 1997 and 2007, or at an average annual rate of 5.6 per cent.

Almost 17 years after the end of the war of destabilisation, arms caches are still being discovered in Mozambique.

A sixth parliamentary deputy has publicly resigned from Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo.

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)on Wednesday approved a loan of 176 million US dollars for Mozambique over the next year to counter the effects of the world economic crisis.

Mozambique's Minister of Public Works, Felicio Zacarias, has confirmed that the new bridge over the Zambezi river, linking the provinces of Sofala and Zambezia, will be named the "Armando Emilio Guebuza Bridge", in honour of the country's current President.

In Honduras, a country of about 8 million people in the long isthmus that connects North and South America, President Manuel Zelaya attempted to amend the constitution by means of a referendum in order to extend his term of office.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced deep concern about Niger's continuing political and constitutional crisis, warning that it threatens to destabilize the country and undermine recent progress towards democratic governance and the rule of law.

President Mamadou Tandja has undermined Niger's efforts over the last 10 years to advance good governance and the rule of law, President Barack Obama's spokesman said on Thursday.

Responses were mixed in Niger to union leaders' call for a 24-hour work stoppage on 1 July to protest a planned constitutional referendum to allow President Mamadou Tandja to remain in power.

Amid mounting international opposition to a proposed referendum for President Mamadou Tandja to stay in power, the European Commission - one of Niger's largest donors - has warned of aid cuts if leaders do not respect constitutional order.

Uganda's rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) will be sending two more military commanders to the Juba peace talks in South Sudan.

United Nations-backed Congolese armed forces conducting intensified military operations in eastern and northern Democratic Republic of Congo have failed to protect civilians from brutal rebel retaliatory attacks and instead are themselves attacking and raping Congolese civilians, Human Rights Watch said

Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF) has evolved over time. It has now positioned itself as one of the most reliable contributors to the global and regional peacekeeping initiatives.

The UPDF 3rd Division operations and training officer has urged Kenyan militias to gun down any armed Karimojong who enters their territory. Col. Mike Ondoga said this would curb cross-border cattle raids.

The outgoing United States Ambassador to Uganda, Mr Steven Browning, has said he is disappointed by the government's slow pace of rebuilding the north, which has suffered a two-decade war.