Johannesburg — THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has given the government an ultimatum to agree to public sector unions' wage demands or face a total shutdown next week.
Mogadishu — The transitional government of Somalia has harshly condemned the suicide bombers deadly attack of Munna hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, just as it left the lives of 33 people including 6 Somali MPs.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan on Tuesday said some anomalies that had been identified over mining royalties had been fixed.
PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - Mauritius' economic growth for 2010, 2011 and 2012 is expected to be lower than previously estimated in the 2010 budget, the financial secretary, Ali Mansoor said in a statement, without giving new figures.
BEIJING (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday urged China to invest more in infrastructure and manufacturing in his country, as his government seeks to broaden South Africa's economic appeal beyond mines and resources.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Standard Bank Group said on Tuesday it has signed memorandum of understanding with China Railway Group to cooperate on funding for rail and infrastructure projects in Africa.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan plans to build a four- reactor nuclear power plant to fill a gap in the energy needs of Africa's largest country by 2030 costing between $3-6 billion, the head of Sudan's atomic energy agency said on Tuesday.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Tuesday that its members at a Rio Tinto-BHP Billiton joint venture will go on an indefinite strike from Friday following a wage dispute.
PORT HARCOURT Nigeria (Reuters) - A powerful former Nigerian gang leader accused of helping to rig elections in the oil-producing Niger Delta was shot late on Tuesday, raising fears of retaliation in the volatile region.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sent a top official to Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday after a mass rape of women by rebels in the east that U.N. peacekeepers say they only heard about over a week later.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's biggest labour federation COSATU on Tuesday threatened to expand a state workers' strike next week to all of its members, which could deal a heavy blow to manufacturing in Africa's largest economy.
A suicide bomber and a gunman stormed a Mogadishu hotel popularly patronized by Somali officials and killed 15 parliamentarians, an official and eye witnesses told AfricaNews. Al-Qaeda linked group of Al-Shabaab on Monday announced a heavy offensive attack against government forces and AU peacekeepers.
A South Africa-based policy analyst Jonathan Mahlangu, has said that the plan by the African Union to commence a process that would lead to the establishment of a regional space agency in cooperation with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) aimed at focusing on the development of common space policy for the African continent was long overdue.
The head of Sierra Leone's Police and his deputy have been fired without any reason. President Ernest Bai Koroma said the Inspector General Acha Kamara and deputy will be replaced by Francis Alieu Munu and Richard Moigbe respectively following parliamentary approval.
An African Union official said Monday that hundreds of additional troops have arrived in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, to bolster the AU force that supports the Somali government.
New York, IRNA – American political activist and university professor Patrick McKinnon believes White House is making a grave mistake regarding Iran; must lift sanctions and enter talks with Tehran immediately.
A United Nations human rights team has confirmed that members of two armed groups in the volatile east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) raped more than 150 women during an attack on a village in North Kivu province last month, a UN spokesperson said on Monday.
New York — With less than four months until South Sudan's scheduled referendum on secession, the Obama administration as well as advocacy groups in Washington appear uncertain as to what course of action the United States should take.
An assessment of the environmental impact of oil spills across Ogoniland and the Niger Delta regions in Nigeria is not yet complete, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) stressed on Monday as it refuted allegations in the media that it has already reached key findings.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan authorities have intercepted more than 2 tonnes of elephant tusks and rhino horns disguised as fruit destined for export to Malaysia.
