Technical teams representing the governments of Angola and Namibia and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees are meeting in Windhoek, to discuss the repatriation of Angolan refugees to their country.

Speaker of the Malawi Parliament, Sam Mpasu, has directed the parliamentary committee on media and communications to investigate the circumstances surrounding the beating of Nation newspaper senior journalist, Gedion Munthali, by a ruling United Democratic Front MP.

Global warming is helping to cause an unprecedented series of famines, which is pushing the world beyond its ability to cope, says the United Nations. In some countries - such as Somalia and Zimbabwe -the crisis has been greatly aggravated by conflict and government policies.

Informal talks aimed at hammering out a power-sharing deal in the Democratic Republic of the Congo opened in Pretoria, South Africa, between the DRC government and two of the country's main rebel groups.
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As the debate over non-existent or crooked election processes continues all over Africa, it is true that the issue of governance goes far beyond just how we choose our leaders. How we relate to leaders even when they are chosen in clean, transparent elections determines the quality of our politics to a great extent.