SA has no time to waste clearing AGOA stumbling blocks
Washington officials say they’re confident South Africa’s keen to remove stumbling blocks to the renewal of its special dispensation giving tax-free status to 98 percent of its R40 billion exports to the United States. But they say there’s looming deadline from Congress drawing up new legislation. South Africa imports R6 billion worth of beef, pork […]
Zambian president in South Africa for surgery
Zambian President Edgar Lungu is travelling to South Africa for throat surgery. He collapsed while making a speech in Lusaka on Saturday, suffering from narrowing of the oesophagus. President Edgar Lungu spoke to reporters in Lusaka today saying he was moving directly to South Africa for tests, and if necessary surgery. He told them he […]
Nigeria’s neighbours recapture Boko Haram-held town
A regional force has recaptured the Nigerian town of Damasak. There’s fierce fighting in that the northeast of that country as West Africa neighbours – Niger, Chad and Cameroon – join in the fight against Boko Haram. The Islamist militants have held Damasak near the Niger border since November. It’s part of the 20 000 square […]
Libyan guard died of heart attack watching collegeagues beheaded
An oil field guard in Libya’s died of a heart attack as he watched Islamic State militants behead eight of his colleagues. The jihadis kidnapped nine foreign oil workers in the attack 700 km southeast of the capital Tripoli. The attack on the Al Ghani field is in pursuit of Islamic State’s goal of taking […]
Ivorean Iron Lady jailed
Simone Gbagbo, the wife of defeated Ivory Coast President Laurent been jailed for 20 years. She’s been found guilty in Abidjan of undermining state security in the aftermath of 2010 elections when her husband refused to acknowledge defeat. Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo is in The Hague awaiting trial at the International Criminal Court. The […]