British diplomats have called for a full investigation into the fatal shooting of an award-winning journalist by Israeli troops.
The United States congratulated Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo on his re-election in the country’s April 19 poll, which it hailed as ”largely peaceful”.
The impact of the deadly Sars virus in Africa would be devastating and the continent cannot afford to see the disease spread there, warns the World Health Organisation.
The Brazilian government on Saturday expressed an interest in manufacturing antiretroviral drugs in Mozambique, a Brazilian lawmaker said.
New fighting broke out between government forces and rebels in the west of Ivory Coast on Saturday, only hours after a peace agreement had been signed in the main city of Abidjan, officials on both sides said.
In an apparent move to avert a strike by organised labour over the restructuring of South Africa’s ports, the government has requested an urgent meeting with the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu), to discuss concessioning.
With the rand seemingly determined to break through the R7 to the dollar limit, some South Africans may smile at the prospect of overseas travel again becoming affordable. Three economists give their perspectives on the fall and rise of the rand.
South Africa’s "national flower" and "roadside daisies" face extinction
as the deadline draws close for shops to stop providing consumers with free thin plastic bags.
Before receiving a triple life sentence for murdering three black people on a Pretoria bus in 2000, De Wet Kritzinger told the city’s high court he had intended to kill many more, and had no remorse for what he had done.
The popular opposition mayor of Zimbabwe’s capital city, Elias Mudzuri, went into hiding from police Friday as authorities tried to enforce a controversial order to suspend him from office.