ALGIERS, Responding to requests by Algeria, the European Union (EU), the African Union (AU) and the Organization of the Islamic Co-operation (OIC) have agreed to send election observers to Algeria to monitor this country’s May 4 legislative elections.T…
Scars of rape last “longer than the war”: UN Special Representative
Addressing sexual violence in conflict is the “great moral challenge of our time,” the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sexual Violence in Conflict has said. Zainab Hawa Bangura, who’s stepping down from her post soon, was speaking at a
Pretoria � Government has urged social grant beneficiaries to take note of their respective pay days, which appears on the slips received on their previous pay date in March 2017.
Beneficiaries receiving social grants from merchants and banks will be paid on 1 April 2017, while those using South Africa Social
Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias will attend the Meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers taking place in Brussels tomorrow, Friday, 31 March.The meeting of Foreign Ministers will focus on the importance of transatlantic cooperation, consolidation of regional a…
The United States is disappointed by lack of progress in implementation of the December 31 Saint-Sylvestre Political Agreement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We are concerned by the inability of both the Government of the DRC and the leaders …
It was first detected in Africa barely a year ago, yet the fall armyworm, a type of caterpillar whose name derives from its tendency to maraud in vast numbers, has already infested hundreds of thousands of hectares of maize across more than a dozen cou…
Women need better opportunities and resources to help improve “under-performing” smallholder food production, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.That’s according to Libor Stloukal of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); who special…
29 March 2017 – In African and Middle Eastern countries facing famine, unsafe water is as dangerous for severely malnourished children as lack of food, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today warned, noting that nearly 27 million people are a…
29 March 2017, Rome – A small red weevil that destroys palm trees has rapidly expanded its global spread and threatens date and coconut production if its advance is not stopped.Scientists, pest control experts, agricultural ministers and farmer represe…
A Tshwane Metro traffic officer is expected to be sentenced when she appears at the Cullinan magistrate court tomorrow (Wednesday March 29).The officer, Ms Sebo Mathabatha (38), was convicted in terms of the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activiti…
PRETORIA– South African President Jacob Zuma has instructed Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and his deputy, Mcebisi Jonas, to cancel the international investment promotion roadshow to Britain and the United States and to return to South Africa immedia…
Pretoria � Sadness filled the hearts and souls of mourners who gathered at the Nelson Mandela Foundation on Tuesday to share memories of the late Ahmed Kathy Kathrada.
The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation on Tuesday called a media briefing following the death of the struggle stalwart who died in the morning at
