An Australian tourist has been stabbed to death in Zimbabwe’s prime tourist destination, the Victoria Falls, state radio reported on Sunday.
British American Tobacco deliberately sought to undermine health experts’ work on tobacco control in Southern Africa in the early 1990s.
Floods in Malawi have left four people dead and more than 15 000 people homeless while causing extensive damage to desperately-needed maize crops, relief officials said on Sunday.
Four Zimbabwean police officers manning a food queue were injured on Sunday in clashes with a group of youths who besieged a shopping centre in Chitungwiza town, 23 kilometres south of the capital, police said on Monday.
Japanese electronics giant Hitachi said Monday it has launched a company combining its hard disk drive operations with those of US counterpart IBM to boost global competitiveness.
Shares in Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton plunged on Monday after the company announced the surprise resignation of chief executive Brian Gilbertson after just six months in the job.
President Thabo Mbeki will interrupt his leave to go to the African National Congress’ headquarters in Johannesburg on Monday to discuss a looming legislative crisis in Kwazulu-Natal with the party’s leadership.
Jesus was almost certainly a cannabis user and an early proponent of the medicinal properties of the drug, according to a study
Nigeria’s president, Olusegun Obasanjo, was fighting for his political life last night as the ruling party considered dumping him and selecting one of his rivals to lead it in elections in April.
Seven years after the action was filed, a trial may be starting this week on a lawsuit claiming cigarette makers plotted to get smokers addicted and keep them hooked.