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EDGAR Lungu was inaugurated as Zambia’s new president Sunday. “I am humbled eternally and indebted to you all, my fellow citizens,” said Lungu at the swearing in ceremony. “The bottom line

UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, has welcomed the agreement on the reunification of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) signed by the South Sudanese parties in Arusha, Tanzania. According to a statement issued

GAMBIAN authorities should either charge or release family members of people suspected to be involved in December’s alleged failed coup, and grant them immediate access to lawyers, Amnesty International said today.

MORE than 10,000 panic-stricken Camerounians are fleeing border regions with Nigeria’s Borno State for safer locations following attacks by Nigeria’s Islamic militant group, Boko Haram, government officials said yesterday. Boko Haram

NELSON Mandela’s former personal assistant, Zelda la Grange, has apologised after sparking an online race row with comments that White people were being made to feel unwelcome in South Africa. La

GUNMEN have at the weekend launched an attack on a United Nation’s (UN) camp in Mali, killing a UN peacekeeper, residents and eyewitnesses said. The attack took place at about 06:00

A CONTINGENT of soldiers from Chad has arrived in northern Cameroun where it would deploy to the Nigerian border as part of efforts to contain the Boko Haram insurgency, a spokesman for

UNITED Nations (UN) peacekeepers should be more active in monitoring violence in Sudan’s south ahead of a key referendum in independence in eight months time, the oil- producing region’s main party has

THE Zambian government has fired private lawyers who appealed against a court decision that acquitted former President Frederick Chiluba of stealing millions of dollars from public coffers. The lawyers were appointed in

A MONTH after Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) authorized a probe into Kenya’s post election violence, prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo said the ongoing inquiry would deter other African countries from