South Africa's ability to deal with threats of global terrorism will be determined when the United Nations (UN) Counter Terrorism Directorate visits the country next month.

A delegation of the Joint Commission for the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding on Peace in Cabinda left Luanda Wednesday for that northern province of Angola to assess the political and social situation in the region.

The Higher Technical Military Institute (ISTM), belonging to the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA), situated in Luanda's Grafanil Military Camp, will be inaugurated on Thursday.

Roberto de Almeida receives in audience UN official for Desarmament, Sérgio de Queiroz

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The entry into force on Monday of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol heralds a new dawn in the fight for the well-being of people with disabilities - a struggle rooted in the

THE GOVERNMENT has accused Western ambassadors on Wednesday of breaching Zimbabwe's laws and undermining President Robert Mugabe's government by "cooking up" evidence of political violence.

Faduma Dalel Farah, a mother of four, is a typical victim of the ongoing conflict in the Somali capital. She and four of her six children were wounded when the insurgents attacked forces of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in

The Ethiopian government is proposing a new law to restrict activities of the Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in the country.

Post election violence sponsored by the losing Zanu PF party has now claimed the lives of 32 people, according to the MDC.

The number of opposition officials and supporters murdered in the ongoing state-sponsored violence is believed to be much higher because many deaths are going unreported.

LRA leader Joseph Kony kept chief mediator and South Sudan's Vice President Riek Machar, religious and cultural leaders from northern Uganda waiting for five days at Nabanga at the Congo-Sudan border but failed to show up.

A suspected accomplice of Aldina dos Santos, alias Diana, accused of trafficking young girls from Mozambique to South Africa for sexual exploitation, has recently been arrested in Maputo, and should appear before a court in Pretoria when Diana's trial resumes