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Confusion rises over Nelson Mandela's location
South Africa's presidency declined to directly address reports Thursday that anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela was being treated at a different ...
South Africa deputy president in race to lead ANC
South Africa's soft-spoken Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe will compete next week against President Jacob Zuma to lead the country's ruling party, ...
Mandela's fading presence worries South Africa
As South Africa's governing party moves closer to picking its next leader, it will do so without the man widely viewed as the country's moral compass.
New inquiry in '86 crash killing Mozambique leader
South African police have opened a new investigation into the 1986 airplane crash that killed Mozambique's Marxist president and more than 20 others, ...
14 killed as bridge collapses in South Africa
Heavy rains in South Africa have caused a bridge to collapse, killing 14 people. The South African Press Association reported Tuesday that the bridge ...
S Africa worried as Mandela remains in hospital
South Africa's former President Nelson Mandela underwent more medical tests Monday in a military hospital as the public and journalists outside asked: ...
'Falling man' changes London neighborhood
The suburban stillness of the comfortable, two-story homes in west London's Mortlake neighborhood is broken only by the roar of jets thundering ...
Former Zimbabwe white ruler's farm seized
The manager of a ranch owned by Zimbabwe's last white ruler says he has been ordered by President Robert Mugabe's loyalists to quit the property to ...
S. Africa, Vietnam sign rhino protection agreement
South Africa says its diplomats have signed an agreement with Vietnam to try and halt the trade of horns taken from poached rhinoceros. South Africa's ...
S. African held by pirates arrested on drug charge
A South African woman once held for 20 months by Somali pirates has been arrested by police on suspicion of drug possession. The South African Press ...
South Africa at crossroads as Mandela hospitalized
Inside a Catholic church that once served as a major rallying point for anti-apartheid activists, the image of a gray-suited Nelson Mandela appears ...
Mugabe's party plans for resounding poll victory
Zimbabwe's long-time President Robert Mugabe said Saturday that his party is geared up for a "resounding" victory in elections scheduled next year.
South African icon Nelson Mandela hospitalized
South Africa's former President Nelson Mandela was admitted to a military hospital Saturday for medical tests, though the nation's president told the ...
Zimbabwe president talks of purging corruption
Zimbabwe's president said he would fire government ministers accused of soliciting for bribes in a bid to purge corruption from his party as loyalists ...
South Africa military plane crashes, killing 11
A South African military aircraft on an unknown mission to an area near former President Nelson Mandela's village crashed in a mountain range, killing ...
S. Africa rapper gets 25 years in drag-race deaths
A South African judge has sentenced a hip-hop star and his co-accused to 25 years each in prison for the killings of four schoolchildren in a ...
Brazilian company to build $1B railroad in Malawi
Malawi plans to break ground on a $1 billion new railway line in the country to ferry both passengers and minerals through the nation. A statement ...
Somalia bottoms out in transparency survey
Somalia has bottomed out in an annual ranking of the perceived corruption of nations, joining Afghanistan and North Korea.
South Africa signs $5.8B deal with Alstom trains
South Africa agreed upon a $5.8 billion deal Wednesday with French company Alstom SA to completely refurbish the nation's passenger trains, part of ...
S. African gets life sentence in honeymoon slaying
A South African judge sentenced the triggerman in the 2010 honeymoon slaying of a Swedish bride to life in prison Wednesday, calling the shooter "a ...
Islamist sect in Nigeria grows more deadly
The radical Islamist fighters gather around piles of weapons and ammunition they've stolen and shout praises to God as they shoot into the expanse of ...
Namibia president picks Geingob for prime minister
Namibia's president has said that Hage Geingob will return to serve as the nation's prime minister as part of a major cabinet reshuffle in the ...
Study: Lion ranges, populations dropping in Africa
The lions that roam Africa's savannahs have lost as much as 75 percent of their habitat in the last 50 years as humans overtake their land and the ...
South Africa makes progress in HIV, AIDS fight
In the early '90s when South Africa's Themba Lethu clinic could only treat HIV/AIDS patients for opportunistic diseases, many would come in on ...