Robert Mugabe has been threatening to unilaterally call for fresh polls without fundamental reforms. And attempts to resolve the dispute, largely led…
HARARE – At least 1, 6 million people in Zimbabwe rely on food aid, as the country only has about 92 000…
LAGOS – Fifty-five people have been killed in the north-east of Nigeria in co-ordinated attacks by the Boko Haram militant group, the…
HARARE – South African thoroughbred A King Is Born, who is trained by Alyson Wright, won the Castle Tankard $50 000 race…
LUSAKA – Guy Scott wastes little time on diplomatic language as he lets loose on Africa’s biggest economy, race, Robert Mugabe and…
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) has defended its filmed visit to Nelson Mandela, saying it was not a…
GABORONE – Botswana President Ian Khama has had stitches in his face after being scratched by a cheetah, officials say. The animal…
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s communications regulator, Icasa, on Wednesday gave permission for satellite television network TopTV to broadcast three “sexually explicit” channels,…
CAIRO – Egypt’s justice minister has resigned, following demands from Islamist supporters of President Mohammed Morsi for the “cleansing” of the judiciary….
TRIPOLI – A car bomb has exploded outside the French embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli, wounding two French guards and several…
