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.
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) continued to be pummeled by a considerably stronger local currency and global markets, which were down overnight. Gold stocks, by contrast, got off to a good start on the back of a higher bullion price.
When Nigeria, proud holder of the title of the most populous nation in Africa, goes to the polls this weekend it will be watched keenly from across a troubled continent, analysts say.
Winning the peace is never as easy as winning the war, the old cliche goes. Fears rose last night that the fabric of Iraqi society could fall apart in the wake of the fall of Baghdad.
Arab TV channels across the Middle East played down the news of the fall of Baghdad yesterday, focusing on scenes of chaos and looting.
Coalition forces moved to within 16 kilometres of Mosul yesterday amid signs that the Iraqi northern frontlines were starting to crumble and that the US was preparing a ground offensive.