6 Jan 2013

The presidents of Sudan and South Sudan have agreed on Saturday, to demilitarise their shared borders and revive a stalled oil exportation deal that has lagged for months over disputes on the...

11:13AM
16 Oct 2012

South Africa’s Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma took over as head of the African Union Commission on Monday, becoming the first woman at the helm of the pan-African bloc’s executive committee.

11:25AM
1 Oct 2012

Kenyan troops from the African Union force in Somalia entered the southern port of Kismayo for the first time on Monday, witnesses said, three days after launching a beach assault that led...

8:29PM
19 Jul 2012

China is expected to cement political ties with more African countries after more than a decade of massive investment, making itself an important player in the continent's security issues, when...

9:42PM
6 Nov 2008

The former deputy director of audit, Johnsman Au Chung-man, 58, was found dead yesterday, hanging in a storeroom at the Mid-Levels block where he lived.

Police said they discovered...

4:01AM
5 Jul 2007

'Before you put a roof on a house, you need to build the foundations,' South African President Thabo Mbeki reportedly told diplomats at the meeting of the African Union in Ghana last weekend....

1:35PM

One year ago, British Prime Minister Tony Blair established a top-level commission on Africa, calling the continent's problems a scar on the world's conscience.

10:01AM

CAIRO: Eritrea, Africa's newest independent state, stunned the opening session of the Organisation of African Unity summit yesterday by declaring the group had been a failure for 30 years.

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2:21AM

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