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LUANDA -- The Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF), to be held on Dec 11-17 in Cairo, Egypt, a promotion of the African Union (AU) and Afrexibank, will provide an opportunity for Angolan public and private companies to seek investment in Angola.This first e...

Delegates welcomed round table discussions on Western Sahara planned for Geneva in December and emphasized the importance of African Union support for that initiative, as the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) continued its general...

HARARE-- Trade union leaders and scores of activists detained in Zimbabwe ahead of planned marches over the country's worsening economic crisis, were released on bail Saturday, lawyers said.Peter Mutasa, president of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unio...

Six African women with albinism, a condition that affects the pigmentation of the skin, hair and eyes, set out to climb Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro earlier this month in a bid to raise the visibility of people living with the condition.The climbers ha...

The heads of the World Bank and IMF appealed Thursday to the U.S. and China to cool their dispute over technology policy and play by world trade rules, as tumbling share prices drove home potential perils from a clash between the world's two biggest ec...

Police in Zimbabwe say they will stop planned protests in the capital against a new tax on money transfers. A police spokesman Tuesday cited a recent order that outlaws public gatherings in Harare because of a deadly cholera outbreak.However, critics s...

HARARE-- Zimbabwe's finance minister announced that government would cut public sector jobs to help stem ballooning expenditure.Recently-appointed Mthuli Ncube said job cuts were among austerity measures needed to revive the moribund economy as the sou...