Some 1,458 Eritrean refugees from various camps in Ethiopia were resettled to the United States (US) recently, the Ethiopian State Administration for Refugees and Returnees Affairs (ARRA) disclosed. Last week, a group of 130 Eritrean refugees, after years of exile in Ethiopia, were flown to the US as part of the ongoing resettlement operation. They [...]

A vicar has been jailed for four years for carrying out hundreds of fake marriages to bypass immigration law. The Reverend Alex Brown conducted 360 sham marriages during a four-year period at the Church of St Peter and St Paul in St Leonards, East Sussex. Co-defendants Vladimir Buchak, 33, and solicitor and pastor Michael Adelasoye, [...]

Government hopes unions will accept latest pay offer as schools and hospitals remain paralysed by industrial action. Pressure for an end to South Africa’s public sector strike was intensifying after reports of nurses being beaten, stabbed and kidnapped for crossing the picket line. Union leaders were expected to make an announcement today on whether to [...]

South Africa’s polygamous president, Jacob Zuma, is to become a father for the 22nd time following news that his fiancée is pregnant. Bongiwe Gloria Ngema, who recently accompanied Mr Zuma on a state visit to China, is expecting a child early next year, according to media reports citing her close friends. The pair already have [...]

It is not necessary for Zimbabweans to go back home in order to legalise their stay in South Africa, Home Affairs spokesman Ronnie Mamoepa says. “There is no requirement for Zimbabweans to go back home. They can approach the Zimbabwean embassy in Pretoria or consulates in Johannesburg and Cape Town,” he said responding to NGO’s [...]

LEBOKU (New Yam) Festival in Cross River State has become more than just the celebration of the commencement of the eating of new yam. It has been promoted as an incentive to drive the development of agriculture in the state. Leboku, by nature, is an agric-based festival. It is a yearly ritual of the Ugep [...]

At least one person was killed Thursday as riots in the southern African nation of Mozambique continued into a second day, the director of a hospital told a local television station. Another 37 people were admitted to the hospital with bullet wounds, Evete Soares said. Police used live rounds and threw tear gas into crowds, [...]

ABUJA, Nigeria — Sometime in the next five months, Nigeria will probably have a presidential election. But as the likely deadline looms, there is no election date, no list of candidates and not even a real list of voters in a country of at least 150 million people. Who will be voting — and indeed [...]

Swaziland is one of the last absolute monarchies in the world. Mswati III (born Makhosetive on April 19, 1968) is the king of Swaziland and head of the Swazi Royal Family. In 1986, he succeeded his father Sobhuza II as ruler of the southern African kingdom. He is generally considered to be an absolute monarch, [...]

NAIROBI — Former UN chief Kofi Annan said on Sunday Kenya should clarify its position on the International Criminal Court after it last week hosted Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir, wanted for genocide. “Like many, I was surprised by the presence of President Al-Bashir of Sudan in Nairobi for the promulgation of Kenya?s new constitution,” Annan said [...]