Zimbabwe’s acting Finance Minister Gorden Moyo says the government is concerned with the issue of high lending rates and bank charges.
President Zuma has arrived in the Seychelles to help broker a deal in a second round of talks between Madagascar’s president and the man he ousted.
US actress Natalie Portman has married French dancer Benjamin Millepied, her partner of two years and father of her 14-month-old son.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton became the first US chief diplomat to visit Malawi as she arrived in Lilongwe.
France’s Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has stated that France would back an African lead military intervention in Islamist-held northern Mali.
James Holmes faces 142 charges after a gunman shot dead 12 people and wounded scores more in one of the worst mass killings in US history.
Germany has suspended millions of euros in aid to Rwanda over allegations that the country is backing rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Madagascar’s deposed ex-president Marc Ravalomanana has arrived in the Seychelles ahead of landmark talks with current leader Andry Rajoelina.
French President Francois Hollande has acknowledged his country’s culpability in rounding up thousands of Jews to be sent to Nazi death camps.
In the race for the mainly ceremonial post of Indian president, former finance minister Pranab Mukherjee easily beat his closest rival candidate.
Zimbabwe has lowered its growth forecast for the year as anticipated revenue from the sale of diamonds did not trickle into state coffers as expected.
Syrian Defence Minister General Daoud Rajha has been killed in a suicide attack in Damascus as battles up the stakes ahead of a UN vote on Syria.
Kim Jong-un has been made "Marshal" of North Korea, a title previously held by his late father, as the young successor tightens his grip on power.
Two of Malawi’s biggest donors, the World Bank and former colonial power Britain, have announced big new aid packages.
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma says she would like to make a "humble contribution to the African Union".
Leaders of the Great Lakes region are scheduled to discuss the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
More than 10% of Malawi’s population will need food aid over the next few months after massive crop failure in the country’s south.
West African leaders are growing ever more impatient with Mali’s political crisis, which has seen extremist rebels seize more than half its territory.
South Sudan is not only building a state but also a new identity.
West African leaders urged Mali’s politicians on Saturday to urgently form a national unity government and request UN backing for troops.
A Zimbabwe court has jailed a former senior police officer for 18 years for beating to death a diamond miner in 2008.
Religious leaders have headed up a protest by over a 1 000 people in Mali’s capital after the destruction of historic religious sites at Timbuktu.
Ecuador’s foreign minister says rape cases lodged in Sweden against Julian Assange are laughable but no ruling has been made on his asylum bid.
Women infected with a parasite spread by cat faeces run a higher risk of attempting suicide, suggests a study of more than 45 000 women in Denmark.
Physicists say they have found a new subatomic particle consistent with the "God particle" Higgs boson, which is believed to confer mass.
Two chimpanzees who mauled a US student in SA will not be killed because authorities found the animals defended their territory against a trespasser.
Guinea’s President Alpha Conde has promised much-delayed parliamentary polls would be organised by the end of the year.
Only nine Angolan parties and coalitions of the 27 that put themselves forward will be permitted to battle it out in upcoming parliamentary elections.
Two-thirds of South African teens and adults suffer from a "fear of missing out" on more interesting activities than what they’re doing.
Senegal has voted for a new Parliament with Macky Sall seeking a majority to put his policies into action after ousting Abdoulaye Wade in March.
Enrique Pena Nieto, the youthful candidate of the party that governed Mexico for decades, has won a resounding victory in the presidential election.
Rebels in Mali have smashed seven tombs of ancient Muslim saints in Timbuktu as the ICC warned their campaign of destruction was a war crime.