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Co-operation said on Saturday. "She has been stabilised and is recovering," spokesperson Saul Molobi said. The woman, whose identity was not being disclosed due to the "sensitivity" of the case, was still in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Molobi said...

Mr Pohamba's governing Swapo party got 74% of the parliamentary vote, maintaining its two-thirds majority. Eight of 13 opposition parties that took part in the vote have vowed to contest the results in court, alleging voting and counting irregularities.

Haidar, who won the Robert Kennedy human rights prize in 2008 as well as several other awards for her activism on behalf of Western Sahara, was to fly from Spain's Canary Island of Lanzarote to her homeland. Morocco withdrew the...

Obiang won 260,462 votes in the election on November 29, a government statement released on its web site said on Friday. Four opponents shared the remaining votes but the government refused to publish a voters' roll. In his second term,...

Friday last week, said he had been closely following calls for him to stand, the independent daily Al-Dustur reported.  But the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize winner conditioned the move on “guarantees of fairness,” and for the 2011 presidential and parliamentary...

His name is becoming notorious, however, as the sponsor of a wretched piece of legislation intended to rile the west and torment an already suffering part of his country's population. Uganda 's anti-homosexuality bill 2009 , which is now before...

It has been a quiet end to Thabo Mbeki’s “quiet diplomacy” on Zimbabwe, with little emerging from the first meetings of Jacob Zuma’s new task team in the country to suggest a major shift in approach. Instead, old disputes were...

Hawaii police Detective Sean Smith said Coast Guard crews were looking for Samuel Wheaton Bower, 58, near the Pine Trees surfing area. Bower had rented a 21-foot watercraft and was last seen sailing out of Honokuhau Harbor at 10:30 a.m...Bower,...

Coltan, Cash and Oil Sokari Ekine 4 December 2009 column he demand for the mineral coltan, 80 per cent of which is in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), continues to fuel the conflict in the DRC. Various rebel groups...

The German national's identity will be withheld until he is officially charged. He and another man were arrested on Friday for separate false bomb threats. One of the main entrances to the Cape Town Convention Center, where hundreds of dignitaries...