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South Africa plans to leave the international criminal court (ICC), a deputy minister has said, as the government faces criticism for ignoring a court order to arrest Sudan’s president when he visited the country earlier […]

IN ZIMBABWE they are waiting for rain. The region’s worst drought in a decade has withered the maize (or corn) crop, which came in at only about half the size of last year’s. The poor […]

The military in Burkina Faso has announced the dissolution of the country’s transitional government, a day after presidential guards arrested the interim president and prime minister. President Michel Kafando and Prime Minister Yacouba Zida were […]

In 2013, United States President Barack Obama launched the Power Africa project with much fanfare in Cape Town in South Africa. The ambitious project is a $7 billion one handled by the United States Agency […]

Prior to May 29, 2015, Nigeria received numerous words of support and had the hope of better things to come from the international community, especially the United States of America. Then, America congratulated Muhammadu Buhari […]

Three sisters whose father was deemed to be preparing to have them undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) have been made the subject of a new-style protection order aimed at stopping the practice. The mother of […]

The current Rwandan President, Paul Kagame, is being backed by the country’s ruling Party to lead the country in a third term of office. However, this would require the Rwandan Parliament to amend the constitution […]

The ANC has urged government to challenge the order to haveSudanese President Omar al-Bashir arrested in South Africa for alleged war crimes. “The National Executive Committee holds a view that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is no […]

Canada is perceived as a liberal country. Compared to neighbouring United States of America, USA, Canada’s racial tension seems lower, and the government accepts that it has the responsibility    to provide basic services, including […]

James Last, the German-born jazz band leader whose easy-listening orchestrations became worldwide hits, has died. From the mid-60s, Last and his band toured internationally and recorded some 200 LPs. Musician James Last died in Florida, […]

ISIS, the jihadist group in Syria, Iraq and Libya, has claimed it could purchase a nuclear device and transport same to the United States, through a network of countries including Nigeria, up to Mexico. In […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un had his defence minister executed with anti-aircraft fire for insubordination and dozing off during a formal military rally, South Korean intelligence said Wednesday, hinting at possible instability in the Pyongyang […]

Egypt’s former president Mohamed Morsi has been sentenced to 20 years in prison over the killing of demonstrators outside his palace in 2012, the first verdict to be issued against the country’s first freely elected […]

They came to South Africa in search of a better life and, for a while, found the promised land. Fungai Chopo got work as a builder, his wife, Memory, was hired as a maid, and […]

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THE immigration bill taken up this week by the Senate judiciary committee, says Jeff Sessions, one of its members, is like a “mackerel in the sunshine—the longer it’s out there, the worse it smells”. To […]

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