Business Day (South Africa)
Monday, February 8, 2016 - 06:46
When former U.S. president Bill Clinton visited Africa in 1998, he praised "a new generation of leaders" as champions of a dawning "African Renaissance". Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni was one of them: Two years before, he had been elected president after a decade as a military ruler. Museveni is again running for president — at the age of 71, after abolishing constitutional limits on presidential terms. He refers to the East African country’s oil reserves as his own, holds a public holiday to mark when he seized power in a coup 30 years ago, and is expected to easily win a fifth term in the February 18 elections.
Friday, October 30, 2015 - 06:35
The top American commander for Africa says Boko Haram has lost territory but, with ties to Islamic State, remains a grave threat to the civilian population in Nigeria and neighbouring countries.
Thursday, July 10, 2014 - 07:47
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 06:44
Four years into an insurgency that has cost the lives of over 12,000 people, including hundreds of military personnel, the Nigerian military only started deploying Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles last month in the major theatre of operations in the north-east.
Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 00:00
President Hugo Chavez this week defended his choice for defense minister, dismissing allegations that the hard-line loyalist general helped arm Marxist rebels in Colombia.