Farmers in lowland areas of eastern Ethiopia are increasingly turning to the narcotic khat, according to the UN’s Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia.
Fourteen provincial government officials in Port Elizabeth and East London were arrested on Thursday as the Scorpions continued their crackdown on corruption in the Eastern Cape government
South African electricity utility Eskom will not be allowed to invest in new generation capacity in the domestic market to ensure meaningful participation of the private sector in electricity in the medium term.
The South African rand surged to multi-month best levels against most of the major currencies on Thursday, buoyed by a number of factors and stop-losses.
A website has been established to keep an eye on the environmental impact South African oil and chemicals group Sasol’s operations has on communities in South Africa and the US.
There were few advocates for the New Partnership for Africa’s Development in the US, Stephen Hayes, President of the Corporate Council on Africa said on Wednesday.
Girls as young as 13 and 14 years regularly fall pregnant at Free State schools, according to provincial legislature report tabled this week.
Ethiopia will face a collapse in "social services, governance and safety nets" within a decade because of the HIV/Aids pandemic, the UN Children’s Fund has warned.
A bizarre tale of a bewitched palace, sexual jealousy and the murder of a beautiful royal bride is holding Malaysians spellbound as it unfolds in a sombre courtroom.
Treatment Action Campaign founder member Edward Mavundla, who died on Wednesday an hour before Aids activists arrived to visit him, made a deathbed call for world support for the organisation.