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Clinton keeps up pressure on North Korea
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged Asia’s biggest security community to keep the pressure on North Korea to end its nuclear programme.
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African tourism growth slows in 2009
Tourism to Africa will grow by a slower 2% to 3% in 2009 from about 47-million arrivals last year because of the global economic slowdown.
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South Korea’s former leader dies in apparent suicide
South Korea’s former president Roh Moo-hyun appears to have jumped to his death in the mountains near his home on Saturday, a top aide said.
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North Korea launches rocket over Japan
North Korea launched a long-range rocket over Japan on Sunday, drawing swift international condemnation and triggering an emergency meeting of the UN.
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North Korea ‘to launch rocket soon’
North Korea will soon launch a long-range rocket after completing preparations to put a satellite into space, its official media said on Saturday.
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Rwanda to lay 2 300km of fibre in 2009
Rwanda plans to lay 2 300km of fibre-optic cable costing -million in 2009 to extend a network throughout most of the Central African nation
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Rwanda asks German envoy to leave in growing row
Rwanda asked the German ambassador to leave Kigali on Tuesday in a growing row over Germany’s arrest of a senior aide to President Paul Kagame.
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Uganda rebels vow to repel any attack in DRC
Uganda’s fugitive rebel commander, Joseph Kony, says his fighters will defend themselves if they are attacked by Congolese forces.
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Eritrea rows with Canada over visa refusal
Eritrea on Thursday condemned Canada’s refusal to grant its foreign minister a visa on the grounds that he took part in the war for independence.
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Uganda calls on DRC to attack LRA rebels
Uganda’s army on Wednesday urged the DRC and UN peacekeepers there to attack Ugandan rebels and force the guerrillas’ leader to sign a peace deal.
