Africa Politics News

Disaster risk reduction as a tool for climate change adaptation is a "technical mouthful" said Rachel Shebesh, chair of the African Parliamentarian Initiative for Climate Risk Reduction...The legislative body of the African Union met in Midrand, halfway between Johannesburg and...

Six people were arrested after about 50,000 pirated DVDs were found in a warehouse in Linmeyer, south of Johannesburg, police said on Friday. The find was made during a police raid on a house on Thursday evening, Inspector Lorraine van...

Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said the Thai government may invoke the Internal Security Act in response to the announced rally of the anti-government �Red Shirt� United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) at the end of this month, the...

khartoum: The Minister of Defense, Gen. Abdull-Rahim Mohamed Hussein, has praised the distinguished relations between Sudan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This came in a press conference he held at the premises of the General Consulate of Sudan in...

Khartoum- The Minister of Industry, Dr. Jalal Yousif Al-Degair, Wednesday received in his office the international experts in the field of industrial policies, Abla Abdul-Latif, in the presence of the Representative of the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) to Sudan....

The new opinion survey released by the European Commission has some alarming figures. About one of every six people in Europe claims to have personally experienced discrimination in the past year. As far as grounds for discrimination go, while ethnic...

Zimbabwe's feuding parties will meet over the weekend to thrash out a compromise, with the first deadline imposed by the region to resolve the remaining issues likely to be missed. President Jacob Zuma is expected in Zimbabwe next week to...

Only Zimbabwe had a worse trend for life expectancy, it said. According to the survey, in 2009 average life expectancy at birth for South Africans was 51 years...KwaZulu-Natal had the lowest life expectancy at birth in 2009 at 43 years,...

A US senator has written to Gordon Brown, demanding the immediate return of the Lockerbie bomber to prison. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, said Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi's early release from Greenock jail in Scotland on compassionate grounds was granted...

Twenty-five years after the world was gripped by harrowing scenes of starvation and death in Ethiopia, chronic hunger has returned to the Horn of Africa. Last month the Ethiopian government called for urgent international assistance to help feed 6,2-million people....