JOHANNESBURG – Shares in South Africa’s largest banks fell on Wednesday, following downgrades from the ratings agency Moody’s. Standard Bank, FNB, Nedbank…
NAIROBI – A maximum security prison in Kenya has been the unusual setting for a ceremony awarding a diploma from the University…
NAIROBI – Kenya’s Western-funded anti-terrorism unit has carried out a series of killings and “enforced disappearances” during its fight against militant Islamists,…
ABUJA – The governors of Nigeria’s 36 states have started greeting one another with clenched fist salutes – not out of revolutionary…
CONAKRY – Guinea has a declared a national health emergency as it battles to curb the spread of the deadly Ebola virus….
NAIROBI – The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified Kenya as a “high-risk” country for the spread of the deadly Ebola virus….
GENEVA – Untested drugs can be used to treat patients infected with the Ebola virus, the World Health Organization says. The WHO…
PRETORIA – Prosecutors have twisted the facts to discredit South African athlete Oscar Pistorius in his murder trial, his lawyer has said…
PRETORIA – The main prosecutor in the trial of Oscar Pistorius has argued that the South African athlete cannot avoid a conviction…
LONDON – US investment in Africa is fighting extremism there, US Secretary of State John Kerry has told the BBC. In an…
