JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s parliamentary speaker has apologised for calling an opposition MP “a cockroach”. Baleka Mbete made the remarks about Julius…
JOHANNESBURG – Foreigners will be banned from owning land in South Africa under new proposals outlined by President Jacob Zuma. Locals will…
CAPE TOWN – South Africa’s parliament descended into chaos as leftist MPs scuffled with security during a key annual speech by President…
GENEVA – The number of new cases of Ebola has risen in all of West Africa’s worst-hit countries for the second week…
CAIRO – The Egyptian authorities have suspended football league matches indefinitely after at least 22 fans were killed in clashes with police…
LAGOS – Boko Haram militants have reportedly killed at least 70 people in an attack on the Cameroonian town of Fotokol, on…
LUSAKA — Zambia’s founding president, Kenneth Kaunda, has been hospitalised for an undisclosed ailment, his family said on Wednesday. Mr Kaunda, 90,…
LAGOS – A female suicide bomber has blown up herself in northern Nigeria’s Gombe city, minutes after President Goodluck Jonathan left a…
MASERU – Two soldiers who warned Lesotho’s prime minister about last year’s alleged coup attempt have been shot and wounded and another…
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa has lost R700bn to corruption over the last 20 years, the Institute of Internal Auditors said on Wednesday….
