South Africa has been at the centre of exploring trade opportunities between the United States and Africa, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies said on Thursday. “We’ve been the root of exploring the free trade area with the US… and that is a point which is important,” he told Sapa[…]
The Western Cape High Court has ordered that Agang SA’s new leaders must refrain from implicating former party leader Mamphela Ramphele in fraud allegations, her attorney said on Thursday. “These allegations are untrue, without any merit and in fact malicious and defamatory,” Danie Rossouw said in a statement. He said[…]
Sierra Leone began quarantining areas of Ebola infection, as international health officials announced an international $100m plan to combat an epidemic which has already killed more than 700 people in West Africa. Security forces set up quarantines on Thursday, hours after Sierra Leone’s president, Ernest Bai Koroma, ordered a state[…]
Armed groups claimed to have taken control of Libya’s second largest city, Benghazi, after defeating units loyal to a renegade general, taking over their barracks and seizing tanks, rockets and hundreds of boxes of ammunition. The main police headquarters was on Thursday still smouldering after it was hit by shelling[…]
A ceasefire is under way in the Gaza Strip, after Israel and Hamas agreed to a 72-hour pause in fighting. The truce started at 8am local time (05:00 GMT) on Friday, just hours after 14 more Palestinians were reported killed by Israeli tank and air fire in the coastal enclave.[…]
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