South Africa Today

Maiduguri - Some members of the Islamist sect, Boko Haram, arrested yesterday at Mairi ward behind University of Maiduguri by members of the Civilian...

A bomb attack on a busy shopping district in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, has killed at least 21 people and injured 52 more. The blast, near...

Kinshasa - In a Congolese cemetery overrun with weeds and rubbish strewn among the graves and banana trees, the living have moved in with...

Police in Kenya have arrested a regional governor in connection with a series of gun attacks in the coastal town of Mpeketoni earlier this...

The Ethiopian Prime Minister, Mr. Hailemariam Desalegn‎ said on Wednesday that the alarming rate of suicide bombing was a desperate response by terrorist group...

Harare - President Robert Mugabe yesterday flew to the Equatorial Guinea capital Malabo to attend the 23rd Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU)...

Lusaka - Zambian authorities have charged three opposition activists accused of claiming that President Michael Sata was dying, amid rumours over the elderly statesman's...

A new political party, styled along the lines of controversial South African politician Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), has been launched in Namibia. The...

Maputo - Mozambique has approved a $1.8bn plan to build two hydropower plants to meet growing energy demand in the central province of Tete,...

The World Bank approved an additional $15.5 million for the second phase of Lesotho’s Water Sector Improvement Project that will improve supply to about...