SUDAN has put on hold nine security and economic pacts with South Sudan, including on vital oil shipments, but said Khartoum remained committed to good relations if Juba ended support for rebels.

“We will stop all nine agreements, not only...

MAMPHELA Ramphele, a former World Bank’s managing director turned opposition leader in South Africa, has reasoned that the country would be a better democracy by now if Nelson Mandela had served a second term as president.

The onetime...

THE British government has announced a compensation and costs deal worth £19.9 million for more than 5,200 elderly Kenyans who were tortured and abused during the 1950s Mau Mau uprising against colonial rule.

Making this known Thursday, Foreign...

ISRAEL has struck a deal to deport up to 2,000 illegal Eritrean immigrants to an unnamed African country in return for supplying it with military aid, the Yediot Aharonot newspaper said  Wednesday.

The paper said that, under an agreement in...

ABOUT 11 years after an eruption of Mount Nyiragongo devastated the sprawling lakeside city of Goma, killing hundreds of people, eastern Congo’s armed conflict is preventing scientists from predicting the volcano’s next deadly...

MALIAN soldiers have reportedly launched an assault on armed Tuareg separatists accused of ethnic cleansing, in a bid to dislodge them from a key northern stronghold ahead of national elections.

After a wave of expulsions of black residents by...

A SOUTH Africa court Tuesday postponed the murder trial of sport star, Oscar Pistorius, until August 19.

Pistorius showed up in the court for a brief pre-trial hearing and magistrate Daniel Thulare decided to postpone the trial, Xinhua...

MALIAN troops were preparing  Tuesday to re-take a key regional capital occupied by Tuareg separatist rebels who have refused to allow the entry of the country’s army or government ahead of nationwide elections.

Troops have been mobilised...

AN Egyptian court Tuesday sentenced 43 Egyptian and foreign non-governmental organisation (NGO) workers to jail terms ranging from one to five years for working illegally, causing outrage abroad and raising fears for the future of civil society...