[No peace is to be found on Rustenburg’s platinum belt – tensions are rising at Amplats, where a worker was shot dead by police last week and 12,000 workers got sacked. Strikers said they’d die before allowing new labour on site, while…

[France announced Thursday it will circulate a draft U.N. resolution aimed at stepping up pressure on Mali’s government and its West African neighbors to agree quickly on a workable military plan to oust Islamic militants who seized the north and are turning…

[Les soldats somaliens et ceux de lUnion africaine (UA) sont entrés lundi dans Kismayo, dans le sud-est de la Somalie, désertée par les islamistes shebab depuis plus de 48 heures. Selon les témoignages des habitants, les premiers soldats du contingent kényan de…

[The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Mali’s government have agreed to the deployment of a standby force to the West African country, where Islamist militants control the north. “Thankfully, there is now a consensus around the mandate of the…

[‘You want to annoy the soldiers and they topple me!’President Museveni stormed out of a heated caucus with NRM lawmakers on Monday after they failed to buy into his rigid stance on the Defence ministry’s budget. Museveni had told the lawmakers that…