Who is the ANC Youth League? The <em>Mail & Guardian</em> team talks to delegates at the league’s national conference in Johannesburg.
Police in Niger have arrested Hama Amadou, a former prime minister of the West African nation, on corruption charges, reports said on Thursday.
A Nigerian parliamentary hearing has queried the transport minister for withdrawing millions of dollars in unspent government money.
The awarding of a new tender for antiretroviral drugs by the Health Department will mean important savings for the state’s treatment programme.
The retail price of petrol will rise between 75 cents and 81 cents a litre next week Wednesday, the Department of Minerals and Energy said on Friday.
A strong earthquake shook India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Friday, but no tsunami alert was issued.
Oil leapt to a new record high above a barrel on Friday, extending gains after surging nearly 4% in the previous session.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe voted at a polling station in his old neighbourhood in Harare on Friday in a poll in which he is the sole candidate.
The drunken driving case against cricketer Herschelle Gibbs was postponed in his absence in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Friday.
Those who want to challenge the ANC Youth League leader’s legitimacy at the league’s conference must first win a two-thirds majority.