Western partners as well as the regional bloc Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad) have demanded for his release ...

Between April and July this year, food shortages are expected to worsen, with an estimated 7.7 million people in South Sudan ...

The African labour centre, the Organisation of African Trade Union Unity, OATUU, in April 2013, marked its 40th Anniversary.

Asian markets will be particularly hard hit, including imports to the US from Myanmar to be charged at 45%, and Bangladesh at 37%. Big charges were also imposed on fragile economies in the Middle East ...