Category: Africa

South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has said that 13 South African troops were killed in clashes with the Seleka rebels on the outskirts of Bangui, the capital. Zuma said on...

Samsung South Africa is in hot water over a press event that went awry, after complaints circulated over scantily clad female dancers took the stage to show home appliances. The...

Kenya's Supreme Court has ordered the re-tallying of votes cast at 22 polling stations - out of 33,000 - in the 4 March presidential election. The court said its agents...

Three Zimbabweans were among seven people who have been arrested in the past few months for putting up “Penis enlargement” posters in South Africa’s Johannesburg central business district, municipal police...

Al Qaeda’s North African wing AQIM said it had killed a French hostage captured in Northern Mali two years ago and that its other French captives were at risk because...

‘We held on to cylinder for 2 days as fellow  passengers went down with ill-fated MV Soni’ … With the name MV Soni boldly inscribed on its dark body, the...

In the fall of 1974 I was walking one day from the English Department at the University of Massachusetts to a parking lot. It was a fine autumn morning such...

South Africa Emergency Service has confirmed the death of 24 people in a vehicle which crashed on the Hex river pass in Western Cape province on Friday. Emergency service spokesperson...

France’s surprise intervention in northern Mali against Islamist fighters involved in lucrative drug-running has disrupted cocaine supply to Europe but smugglers are already finding new routes, analysts said. The former...

Lebanon is still trying to confirm the fate of two Lebanese abducted in Nigeria, Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour told AFP Monday after a video posted online claimed to show bodies...