Zed-ee-ee makes Zuma go tee-hee-hee
By Mercury reporter South Africa's political lexicon is all the richer, courtesy of the country's leading communists.

DR Congo: Rights Defender Abducted, Mistreated
Congolese authorities should open a prompt, impartial, and thorough investigation of the abduction and ill-treatment of a human rights defender in Nor...

Congo: 70 dead, 200 missing in 2 boat capsizes
Two boats capsized over the weekend in separate incidents on Congo's vast rivers, leaving 70 people dead and 200 others feared dead, and both vessels ...

500 Women and Children Raped in Congo
Despite our distance from the deadliest conflict since World War II, there are ways to respond.

UN seeks to placate Rwanda leader
The UN's secretary general has urged Rwanda not to withdraw its peacekeepers from Sudan over a leaked report saying its troops may have committed geno...

Haunted by rape dilemma
''The rebel leader asked me two things: 'Do you want us to be your husbands? Or do you want us to rape you?'" Congolese mother-of-eight Clementine spe...

Controlling conflict resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The political economy of mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is central to sustaining the conflict in the east of the country.

Metorex confident of copper mining's future
Diversified South African miner Metorex forecast higher global prices and demand for copper, mainly from China and India, yesterday as it posted a 5% ...

Congo official says capsized boat was overloaded
A capsized boat that killed as many as 200 people was carrying four times as many people as the passenger list claimed, and boat operators bribed offi...

U.N. reports over 500 rapes in eastern Congo
The United Nations on Tuesday reported more than 500 systematic rapes were committed by armed combatants in eastern Congo since late July - more than ...