Disgraced British politician and best-selling novelist Jeffrey Archer, currently serving a four-year jail term for perjury, has struck a multi-million-pound deal to write three books.
Pretoria police are investigating the death of a 10-month-old baby boy following a hijacking near Rosslyn, Pretoria on Saturday morning.
Ghanaian security agencies said on Saturday they had destroyed a 100-acre marijuana farm in the West African country.
Rwandan-backed rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have accused a rival group allied to the Kinshasa regime of massacring nearly 400 civilians this week in the northeastern Ituri region.
Two people were killed by Indian shelling overnight in the Pakistani zone of the disputed Himalayan state.
Four Walvis Bay Port vessels are searching for seven fishermen who went missing when a Namibian trawler sank off the south coast.
Inside the Ivory Coast military base turned rebel headquarters in the city of Bouake, two negotiators back from peace talks in Togo rallied their supporters on Friday at an emergency meeting.
At least 30 people have been killed and over 50 wounded in two days of fighting in Mogadishu, with thousands displaced.
On the second day of the hunt for illicit weapons in Iraq, UN inspectors again found Iraqi officials well-prepared for their ”surprise” visits.
The SA Reserve Bank firmly stuck to its guns on the policy of inflation targeting on Tuesday, saying there was no prospect of a change in its approach.