More people tend to die of HIV/Aids than all those who died in wars fought in South Africa during the past two centuries, says South African Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
The annual South African influenza season was off to a more severe than usual start, a researcher at the Institute for Virology in Sandton said on Monday.
The Kenyan authorities have been accused of approving a controversial titanium mining venture along the country’s Indian Ocean coast without addressing the economic and environmental concerns raised by the local population.
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has rejected the idea of forming a unity government with the party of President Robert Mugabe, whose re-election last year has been contested by Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change.
Suspended prison chief Tatolo Setlai will face 20 criminal charges when his trial starts in November in the Bloemfontein Regional Court, the prosecutor said on Monday.
Australia will from Tuesday provide entirely free access to its markets for the world’s 50 poorest nations, fulfilling a promise the government made almost a year ago, Trade Minister Mark Vaile said on Monday.
A drug widely used to spike the drinks of rape victims and sold over the Internet is to be outlawed from midnight on Monday, the British government has announced.
Japan is eyeing an oil deal with Iran that could strain ties with the United States, which is trying to isolate Tehran for allegedly sponsoring terrorism, officials said on Monday.
Prosecutors urged a court on Monday to sentence a suspect in last year’s Bali bombings to death — in the first trial over the October 12 attack that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.
An Irish doctor has found a new strain of the HIV virus, the Irish Times reported on Monday.