Eighty-year-old Laurent Gbagbo was re-elected as leader of the PPA-CI party at its congress this week.
READ MORECape Verdeans headed to the polls on Sunday in legislative elections marked by uncertainty, with five parties competing and Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva seeking a rare third term in a country long praised for its political stability.
Felicien Kabuga, once among Rwanda’s richest businessmen and later accused of helping finance the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, has died in detention while awaiting further legal proceedings before a UN-backed tribunal in The Hague.
Burundi’s President Evariste Ndayishimiye has been nominated to stand as his party’s candidate in next year’s presidential election.
'Should you ever need to get hold of us, just give us a ring,' King Charles added, as the crowd laughed.
MEPs said the UK would be ‘warmly welcomed’ back in the EU – but without any special deals (Picture: EPA)
The Ditsobotla Local Municipality in the North West granted a service provider a R25-million contract over the phone for the supply of generators for a pump station.
Life is gradually returning to normal in Mali, according to testimonies gathered after the jihadist attack that claimed the life of General Sadio Camara.
Russian President Vladimir Putin told Iran's top diplomat that Moscow would do everything it could to help secure peace in the Middle East, during a meeting in Saint Petersburg on Monday.
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'The escalating behaviour of some of the protesters and the threat to officer safety'
Luckily, no firearms were present, and no one was injured - except, maybe another player in the first-person shooter game online.
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