Islamist rebels ambushed an armored convoy transporting Somalia's internal affairs minister Saturday in the outskirts of the capital Mogadishu, sources said.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced grave concern over the fighting spurred by attacks by the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) forces that has broken out on the outskirts of the Sudanese capital Khartoum.
THE police last week descended on civil society and the media, arresting two journalists, two trade unionists, a human rights lawyer and three student leaders in what civil society organisations say is as an intensifying crackdown on dissenting voices.
The fight against graft in the Uganda Police Force gained momentum on Wednesday when operatives of the Police Professional Standards Unit (PPSU) arrested 17 traffic officers on the spot for allegedly soliciting bribes from errant drivers.
The Ginwala Commission of Inquiry has on Friday made public a letter from President Thabo Mbeki to Justice Minister Brigitte Mabandla concerning the prosecution of National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi.
Former Home Affairs Minister Dumiso Dabengwa says the country is virtually under military rule following President Robert Mugabe's dramatic defeat in the 29 March elections.
The Zimbabwe government's politically motivated arrest of prominent human rights lawyer Harrison Nkomo raises fears of a broader crackdown on government critics, Human Rights Watch said today.
Investigation Division Ignores Gold Smuggling and Arms Trading in Congo United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon should urgently address the failings of the investigating arm of the United Nations and ensure that UN peacekeepers responsible for abuses are held to account,
Fidentia chief executive J Arthur Brown has been arrested on charges of theft, fraud and money laundering, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said on Friday. "J Arthur Brown was arrested on the strength of a warrant following the investigation that
It is about time that the humiliation of South African freedom fighters in the United States came to end, African National Congress (ANC) national executive committee member Tokyo Sexwale said on Saturday. The US House of Representatives on Thursday adopted
The Scorpions must be disbanded because they are a counter-revolutionary force out to destroy African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma and destabilise the party, the Umkhonto weSizwe Veterans' Association (MKVA) said on Saturday.
Fidentia chief executive J Arthur Brown is expected to appear in court in Cape Town on Monday after he was arrested on charges of theft, fraud and money laundering on Friday. He was arrested in Cape Town's central business district
The South African Communist Party, an ally of the African National Congress (ANC), called at a weekend summit for President Thabo Mbeki to be sacked, newspapers said on Saturday, but the ANC said the issue was not even on the
No link seems to exist between the suspensions of South African Broadcasting Corporation group CEO Dali Mpofu and head of news Snuki Zikalala, Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said on Saturday. She said the information she received indicated that the board's
The Al-Qaeda network has planned to send time bombs to Nigeria," Inspector General Mike Okiro told senior officers yesterday at a meeting in the south of the west African nation, according to several newspapers. Okiro gave no more details of
In one attack, dozens of Islamic insurgents ambushed and killed four Somali soldiers and wounded two others as they travelled to the southwestern town of Baidoa from Mogadishu, said Ali Aden Ali, a senior police officer. Ali said the insurgents
