Emotions seemed to be drawn to breaking point in Malawi as the country nervously awaits the high court ruling on the recount of the 20 May election results. This was evident in the clashes between the police an...
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Boko Haram added another 40 lives to their list of casualties today after attacking a village in the Nigerian state of Borno. The group raided the village, setting most of the homes alight and killing at least ...
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The Springs resident who allegedly held his wife and five children captive and submitted them to years of abuse appeared in the Springs Magistrate’s court today. The man, aged 36, faces charges of child a...
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The newly appointed Mining Minister, Ngoako Ramatlhodi, has committed himself to mediating between the striking workers and the platinum producers. The wage strike, which is now the longest in South African his...
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The two billion Rand project, the proposed building of South Africa’s first post-democracy, completely black-built town, formally known as the, “Umlalazi-Nkandla, Smart Growth Centre,” will be...
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Islamist extremist group, Boko Haram, claimed another thirty lives today when they attacked two villages in the Northeast of Nigeria. The attacks took place near the town of Chibok, where the organisation kidna...
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It all started after the country’s July 2013 elections in which the main opposition party, MDC-T, was completely whitewashed by the ruling ZANU-PF. Then the blame game started. Many in the party blamed th...
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In an apparent culmination of a long standing diplomatic furore between South Africa and Rwanda, the two countries have expelled each other’s diplomats. This came to a head on Friday when Kigali asked six...
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It is reported that at least four people of Somali origin have been arrested and charged in Kenya over the Westgate Mall attack in what is increasingly being referred to in media circles as the September Siege....
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South African president, Jacob Zuma, has made the decision to take a break after what the ANC dubbed, “an intense election campaign”. Secretary General, Gwede Mantashe let reporters know today that the president will get time off until next week, when he is having a cabinet at the ANC’s Lekgotla. “The President is exhausted. The election was punishing. He is given time to relax. He is having a cabinet at Lekgotla next week,” Mantashe told reporte... Read more »