Thirty-two people including UN officials and peacekeepers were killed on Monday when a plane crashed on landing in heavy rain in the DRC capital.
Targeted cyber attacks will pose a growing threat to companies around the world this year after the Stuxnet worm hit Iran’s nuclear programme in 2010.
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UN and French forces in Côte d’Ivoire have fired on strongman Laurent Gbagbo’s barracks and palace as his rival waged an all-out attack to unseat him.
Oil prices rose above $120 a barrel in London trade on Monday, for the first time in two and a half years, as nerves over the conflict in Libya grew.
Muammar Gaddafi’s forces were staging a "massacre" in the Libyan city of Misrata on Monday, even as Turkey said it was trying to broker a ceasefire.
The press ombudsman has denied an ANC Youth League request for a probe into two newspapers’ use of incorrect quotes attributed to Julius Malema.
At least 20 UN workers were killed when their plane crashed on Monday while trying to land in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s capital Kinshasa.
Primary school teachers are battling with the simple arithmetic they’re meant to be teaching, according to a survey of education in South Africa.
Police and armed men in civilian clothes opened fire on anti-government demonstrators in Yemeni cities on Monday, leaving 15 dead and dozens wounded.