LUSAKA (Reuters) – Zambia, Africa’s largest copper producer, signed an agreement on Friday with two Chinese companies to build a 600 megawatts plant expected to cost $1.5 billion, Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane said.
Musokotwane said the …

PRETORIA (Reuters) – Major South African public sector unions will respond next week to a revised government pay offer, suspending for several days a threatened mass strike they said would bring services to a halt, …

BEIJING (Reuters) – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Friday met his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao, who praised the two nations’ “strong and deep friendship” and pledged to boost trade and investment and strengthen political ties.
China …

Four bodies have been found in an unused shaft of a mine run by relatives of South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma and ex-leader Nelson Mandela. (source BBC)
Police said investigations were continuing into reports that up …

APA-Lilongwe (Malawi) United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has expressed satisfaction over the developments undertaken at a rural Mwandama Village Project aimed at achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.

APA-Pretoria (South Africa) The South African government, through its Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation, on Thursday said that it was going to support local family members and relatives of those who died in a …