News Source: Africa Headlines
| 8 months ago
A rousing welcome at a national trades union conference and a belated wage deal at the Marikana platinum mines are the first signs that President Jacob Zuma is fighting back. He has been under fire over his handling of the crisis at Lonmin's platinum
News Source: The Economist
| 10 months ago
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, South Africa's minister for home affairs, was elected on July 15th to run the commission of the African Union (AU), having eventually won the approval of 37 out of the AU's 54 countries. The pan-African club will continue, as
News Source: All Africa
| 10 months ago
With greater integration gaining currency across the globe, several questions as to parameters of integrating and its sustainability have been asked. Formed to succeed its loathed predecessor, the OAU, which was synonymous with Africa's dictatorship,
News Source: Daily Nation
| 10 months ago
Rating In Summary Leaders to vote today in Addis Ababa with the results expected tomorrow Since African leaders in January failed to choose between Gabon's Jean Ping and challenger Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma in the election of the next chairman of the
News Source: All Africa
| 1 year ago
Vienna Twenty international journalists who have been recognised as World Press Freedom Heroes by the Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) have condemned the Ethiopian government's decision to jail Eskinder Nega and other journalists on
News Source: Contra Costa Times
| 1 year ago
Then she drove to Oikos University, where she worked at the front desk. "That's the last time we talked," her mother, Mary Jean Ping said Tuesday at the family's East Oakand home, remembering Sundays picnicking at the park and her daughter's
News Source: NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
The African Union wants to turn the page in its ties with Libya's new rulers, the head of the AU's executive arm said on Monday on his first visit to the country since the ouster of Moammar Qaddafi. "What I told the authorities firstly is that the
News Source: The independent
| almost 2 years ago
Somali children wait outside one of the four refugee camps established along Ethiopia's border with Somalia. Water rations have dropped from 10 litres a day per person to three Since the food crisis began in the Horn of Africa, Somalia and Kenya have