Afro-pessimism, says Fifa, is affecting South Africa’s preparations for next year’s Confederations Cup and the 2010 Soccer World Cup.
The US on Friday haggled over a revised version of a $700-billion Wall Street bailout, with leading Democrats optimistic the package would be passed.
Radical Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr issued a fresh call on Friday for United States troops to withdraw from Iraq.
Former ANC chief whip Tony Yengeni’s drunken-driving trial will start on November 14, a court decided on Friday.
Supporters of Thabo Mbeki, who want to start a new political party, hope to use outgoing Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa as the face of the party.
Sudan’s president, accused of genocide in Darfur by the West, says rich countries are bullying the planet’s poorest states.
Kenya accused Western envoys on Friday of ”shameless blackmail” and condescension for trying to force the head of the electoral commission to resign.
South African farmers will help rebuild Zimbabwean agriculture if the new government can resuscitate the stagnant sector.
Cricketer Herschelle Gibbs will go on trial for drunken driving on December 3, a Cape Town magistrate ordered on Friday.
Somali pirates attacked four ships in what a maritime piracy watchdog said on Friday was a ”critical level” of attacks in the Gulf of Aden.