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South African gold miners ease some pay demands as strike bites

YoopyaSep 4, 2013May 1, 20240

(Reuters) – South Africa’s main mining union has offered to compromise on some of its demands for higher pay after launching a strike that hit

Protracted strike in South Africa gold mines would hurt economy: minister

YoopyaSep 3, 2013April 7, 20240

(Reuters) – A protracted strike in South Africa’s gold industry would harm Africa’s largest economy and the government is ready to intervene to bring parties

U.N. agency says 2.2 million Zimbabweans face food shortages

YoopyaSep 3, 2013April 7, 20240

(Reuters) – Zimbabwe faces its worst food shortages in four years following a drought and poor harvest, the U.N. World Food Programme said on Tuesday,

U.N. envoy says military success an opportunity for Congo talks

YoopyaSep 3, 2013April 7, 20240

(Reuters) – The U.N. special envoy for Africa’s Great Lakes region said on Monday recent military successes by Congo’s army against eastern rebels should be

Egypt’s Brotherhood under legal threat as bomb hits central Cairo

YoopyaSep 2, 2013April 7, 20240

(Reuters) – A judicial panel set up by Egypt’s military-backed government backed a legal challenge to the status of the Muslim Brotherhood on Monday, compounding

Nigeria’s ruling party splinters, in threat to Jonathan

YoopyaSep 2, 2013April 7, 20240

(Reuters) – Seven Nigerian ruling party governors and a former presidential candidate formed a splinter group opposed to President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday, in the

Ghana president says democracy deepened with vote dispute

YoopyaAug 31, 2013April 14, 20240

ACCRA — Ghana President John Dramani Mahama told AFP in an interview Friday after the supreme court upheld his 2012 election victory that the emerging

Former rebels sow terror in Central Africa Republic: residents

YoopyaAug 31, 2013April 14, 20240

(Reuters) – Former rebels who seized power in Central Africa Republic are looting and killing indiscriminately in the country’s remote northwest, residents said on Friday,

South Africa’s waning gold industry braces for more strikes

YoopyaAug 31, 2013May 1, 20240

(Reuters) – South African gold miners plan to strike for higher pay from Tuesday, inflicting more damage on an industry that has produced a third

Mandela still in hospital, not discharged: South Africa government

YoopyaAug 31, 2013April 21, 20240

(Reuters) – Former South African President Nelson Mandela, who has been receiving medical treatment for three months for a lung ailment, is still in hospital