Former Home Affairs Minister Dumiso Dabengwa says the country is virtually under military rule following President Robert Mugabe's dramatic defeat in the 29 March elections.
Islamist rebels ambushed an armored convoy transporting Somalia's internal affairs minister Saturday in the outskirts of the capital Mogadishu, sources said.
THE police last week descended on civil society and the media, arresting two journalists, two trade unionists, a human rights lawyer and three student leaders in what civil society organisations say is as an intensifying crackdown on dissenting voices.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced grave concern over the fighting spurred by attacks by the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) forces that has broken out on the outskirts of the Sudanese capital Khartoum.
Fidentia chief executive J Arthur Brown has been arrested on charges of theft, fraud and money laundering, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said on Friday. "J Arthur Brown was arrested on the strength of a warrant following the investigation that
The Scorpions must be disbanded because they are a counter-revolutionary force out to destroy African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma and destabilise the party, the Umkhonto weSizwe Veterans' Association (MKVA) said on Saturday.
It is about time that the humiliation of South African freedom fighters in the United States came to end, African National Congress (ANC) national executive committee member Tokyo Sexwale said on Saturday. The US House of Representatives on Thursday adopted
The South African Communist Party, an ally of the African National Congress (ANC), called at a weekend summit for President Thabo Mbeki to be sacked, newspapers said on Saturday, but the ANC said the issue was not even on the
No link seems to exist between the suspensions of South African Broadcasting Corporation group CEO Dali Mpofu and head of news Snuki Zikalala, Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said on Saturday. She said the information she received indicated that the board's
Fidentia chief executive J Arthur Brown is expected to appear in court in Cape Town on Monday after he was arrested on charges of theft, fraud and money laundering on Friday. He was arrested in Cape Town's central business district
The Al-Qaeda network has planned to send time bombs to Nigeria," Inspector General Mike Okiro told senior officers yesterday at a meeting in the south of the west African nation, according to several newspapers. Okiro gave no more details of
In one attack, dozens of Islamic insurgents ambushed and killed four Somali soldiers and wounded two others as they travelled to the southwestern town of Baidoa from Mogadishu, said Ali Aden Ali, a senior police officer. Ali said the insurgents
Samuel Mwangi, who runs a small-time snake park near Naivasha, about 90 kilometers northwest of the capital Nairobi, said the thief fled with the reptiles overnight Friday. "The thief made away with three puff adders, three spitting cobras and a
Tsvangirai said his supporters would feel "betrayed" if he did not face Zimbabwe's ruler of 28 years in the runoff. "A runoff election could finally knock out the dictator for good," he said. "I am ready and the people are
The business of recruiting teenagers as domestic help is booming despite our efforts to put a stop to it,' said Bello Ahmed, head of the Kano office of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons (NAPTIP), in
Morgan Tsvangirai, who beat Mugabe in a first round of voting in March, is expected in Harare in the next few days after leaving the country in early April amid spiralling post-election violence directed at his party. Zimbabwean doctors, trade
More than 500 tea workers who fled multinational tea estates in Nandi following post-election violence have been asked to return to their work stations.
Realising that multiplicity of taxes has been one of the biggest impediments to voluntary compliance by taxpayers, the Federal Government vowed to work with the Joint Tax Board to encourage the States' Internal Revenue Boards to initiate necessary legislation to
The Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has blasted the AC governorship candidate, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, for denouncing Governor Oserheimen Osunbor as a 419 officer over his approval of 15 percent salary increase for workers.
LAST WEEK'S THREAT BY NURSES to strike has triggered debate as to why nursing professionals in developing countries are migrating to wealthier nations.
