SA platinum miners’ strike ends
The five month strike crippling production in the world’s biggest platinum producer has ended. The miners, who’ve been out since January, could be back at work by tomorrow (Wednesday). South Africa’s labour court’s ruled that the union making this announcement is not permitted to extend its industrial action to the gold sector. Ends intro President […]
Sudan rearrests apostate freed yesterday
Sudanese authorities have today re-arrested woman hours after she was freed from death row, and detained her and her family. Her lawyer says the 27-year-old mother who faced execution for marrying a Christian, was trying to board a plane in Khartoum. Mariam Yahya Ibrahim was sentenced to death last month for converting to Christianity from […]
Egypt under international pressure to pardon jailed journalists
Egypts’s under pressure to pardon three journalists who’ve spent their first night in jail for allegedly spreading lies and supporting the banned Muslim Brotherhood. There’s growing international condemnation of the sentences of seven years in prison. In addition to the three men who left the dock in Cairo for jail, the court imposed 10-year sentences […]
Conflict to overshadowFood theme at AU summit
President Jacob Zuma’s arrived in Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, for the 23rd African Union Summit. Once again problems on the continent are expected to eclipse discussion on the agricultural theme of the gathering. Determined to have a continent with the most available arable land feed itself, African leaders have once again named agriculture […]