Johannesburg (dpa) – Tech company Google has teamed up with South Africa's Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory (NMCM) to create an online archive of photos and documents pertaining to the anti-Apartheid icon, according to an announcement on (...)
Johannesburg (dpa) – A very small group of Indonesians are probably the ancestors of all people in Madagascar, a massive island off Africa's south-eastern coast, according to a new study in the Royal Society's journal on biological (...)
Johannesburg (dpa) – Ugandan Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi took to YouTube on Saturday to respond to the viral campaign against alleged war criminal Joseph Kony, who originally hails from the country.
A video produced by the US-based Invisible (...)
JOHANNESBURG (dpa): South Africa's top arms control committee said on Thursday it was investigating allegations that front companies in the country are involved in exporting military equipment to Iran.
The allegations, made by the Sunday Times (...)
JUBA (dpa) – Fighting in Sudan's key border states is creating a humanitarian disaster that is only likely to get worse, according to a medical charity and recent testimony by United States officials.
Some 80,000 refugees have fled Sudan's Blue (...)
HARARE (dpa) – South African mining firm Impala Platinum (Implats) agreed Tuesday to transfer a 51-per-cent stake in the company's local unit in Zimbabwe to blacks in the country.
The move was demanded by the Zimbabwe government, which threatened (...)
Kampala (dpa) – Shortly after sunset, a group of Ugandan children gathered around a fire in Kalongo village to hear tales from their elders. The traditional storytime ritual was suddenly interrupted by a heavily armed man who demanded to know why (...)
JOHANNESBURG (dpa) – Joseph Kony, the elusive leader of the brutal Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), is suddenly famous far beyond the borders of his native Uganda and its neighboring states in central Africa.
Through Twitter and Facebook, the (...)
Johannesburg (dpa) – A short-circuit was the likely cause of five explosions at a munitions dump in the capital of the Republic of the Congo that possibly killed more than 200 people, government officials and state-run media said Monday.
The (...)
Johannesburg (dpa) – Advertisements are meant to attract attention. A new one in South Africa does just that and goes further, by brazenly putting the topic of homosexuality front and center.
Producers say Africa's first explicitly (...)
Johannesburg (dpa) – The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant Thursday for Sudanese Defense Minister Abdel Raheem Muhammad Hussein.
The warrant is for 20 counts of crimes against humanity and 21 counts of war crimes, allegedly (...)
Johannesburg (dpa) – Four employees of the South African National Parks (SANParks) authority have been arrested in connection with rhino poaching, officials said on Wednesday.
One of the employees is a field ranger while another is a traffic (...)
Johannesburg (dpa) – Four nomadic tribes in remote Namibia have petitioned the United Nations to stop the construction of a massive hydro-electric dam, according to reports on Friday.
According to the petitioners, collectively known as the Himba (...)
Johannesburg (dpa) – South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan laid out the country's budget on Wednesday, putting an emphasis on infrastructure development and job creation, while offering new tax schemes meant to help low and middle-income (...)
Johannesburg (dpa) – A cholera epidemic has spread to nine out of 11 provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
The UN said the spread was “worrisome” as the epidemic had so far killed 644 people and (...)
Kampala (dpa) – Uganda's beleaguered homosexual community is braced for more discrimination and abuse, after a government minister pledged to intensify a crackdown and “fight the gay people.”
Last week, Ethics and Integrity Minister Simon Lotodo (...)
Johannesburg (dpa) – Two buses have collided in north-east Nigeria, killing all 32 people on board, local media reported Friday, citing officials.
Federal Road Safety Commission spokesman Malam Ibrahim Geidam said the two commercial buses crashed (...)
Johannesburg (dpa) – Hundreds of thousands of people in the world's largest refugee camp are experiencing a “humanitarian emergency” because aid work has been scaled down, the charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Thursday.
The sprawling (...)
Kampala (dpa) – Leading Ugandan rights activist Kasha Jacqueline Nabagasera has gone into hiding, after the government raided a workshop that she organized for the gay community and tried to arrest her.
“I am worried about my safety because of (...)
Johannesburg (dpa) – At least 50 people were arrested in north-eastern South Africa on Tuesday, after foreign-owned shops were attacked in an anti-government protest that turned violent, a police spokesman said.
The demonstration in Masoyi town, (...)
Johannesburg (dpa) – Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has said South Sudan is committing “suicide” by halting its oil production, in his latest swipe at Juba, local media reported on Monday.
Last month, South Sudan decided to cease oil exports, (...)
Johannesburg (dpa) – South Africa will issue new banknotes bearing the portrait of former president Nelson Mandela, the government and the country's central bank said Saturday.
The announcement was made on the 22nd anniversary of the day Mandela (...)
Johannesburg (dpa) – Sudan and South Sudan have signed a non-aggression treaty, as part of internationally-led efforts to reduce tensions along their poorly demarcated border, local media reported Saturday.
The countries have also set up a (...)
Johannesburg (dpa) – The Kenyan military said on Saturday that its operations in Somalia have weakened al-Shabab, the Islamist insurgent group, and cut off its key sources of funding.
“In our own assessment, 75 percent of revenue collection of (...)
Nairobi (dpa) – Outside Nairobi's bustling center and traffic jams, a group of women in striped white and black prison uniforms shuffle into a courtyard, where Margret the yoga teacher awaits them, having already spread out a dozen mats.
“Hold (...)