Zimbabwean vice-president Joice Mujuru has denied any involvement in a plot to assassinate the president, Robert Mugabe.
Scores of commuters have been left stranded as thousands of taxi drivers march to the department of transport and community safety in Johannesburg.
FARC, Latin America’s largest rebel group, is accused of kidnapping an army general over the weekend resulting in the suspension of peace talks.
After hours of negotiation over the weekend, Burkina Faso named diplomat Michel Kafando as the country’s interim president who will serve until 2015.
The Reserve Bank’s final rates decision of the year and October’s inflation report are the big items on South Africa’s economic calendar this week.
Displacement, climate change and entrenched abuse block the support women need to enter the agriculture sector, and to be able own land.
A range of crucial economic factors will have a bearing on the monetary policy committee’s decision to be announced on Thursday.
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Giving cash may not be a magic wand, but it is transforming lives.
Emotions ran high at the Waterkloof Air Force Base where bereaved families received the remains of those killed in Nigeria’s church collapse.