EFF hails decision not to suspend them
Lawmakers from South Africa’s firebrand Economic Freedom Fighters party have hailed the decision not immediately to proceed with plans to suspend to suspend them from parliament. They maintain they were acting within the rules of the legislature when they disrupted proceedings last week by calling on President Jacob Zuma to repay public money spent on […]
Thomas Thabane going home to Lesotho
Lesotho’s prime minister Thomas Thabane’s going home today – ending a brief exile in South Africa. Regional mediators will reinstall him in power after an apparent coup last Saturday. Thomas Thabane fled Lesotho in fear of his life when the military surrounded his home in Maseru and attacked police headquarters. His advisor Samonyane Ntsekele says […]
Lesotho premier’s return delayed
Continued unrest in Lesotho seems to have delayed Prime Minister Thomas Thabane planned return today. Sporadic gunfire has been heard in the capital Maseru and there have been power cuts compounding the tension. Lesotho premier Thomas Thabane fled Lesotho on Saturday in fear of life because of an apparent coup. He was persuaded to return […]
Ebola kills 31 in DRC
The latest outbreak of the Ebola, which is the worst the world has seen, has killed at least 31 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo where the deadly haemorrhagic disease was first identified 38 years ago. The World Health Organisation says the epidemic in the DRC has been contained in the remote Equateur province […]