The Security Council has heard that weapons supplies being delivered to Libya by external actors in violation of an arms embargo are either falling into the hands of terr...
Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) says the country’s official unemployment rate has jumped to 29% in the second quarter of the year. The unemployment rate for females ...
Eighteen people were killed when a small military plane crashed into a residential area in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi early Tuesday, officials told AFP. The plane c...
On a dusty patch of land on the outskirts of the capital Niamey, Niger’s most famous comedian Mamane shows off a site he says will host a drama school to promote African ...
The Commission of Inquiry into impropriety at the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) will continue to hear testimony on Tuesday from the corporation’s former Chief Execu...
Deadly violence marred the start of Afghanistan’s election season on the weekend after President Ashraf Ghani insisted “peace is coming” to the war-torn nation. At least ...
The head of a Sudanese investigation into the violent break up of a protest by security forces said on Saturday that 87 people were killed and 168 wounded in the 3 June&n...
Business strategist, Tawanda Dube, says boards at state-owned enterprises (SOE) earmarked for curatorship will become irrelevant once the Chief Restructuring Officers (CR...
Tensions in Indian-administered Kashmir rose Sunday over the weekend deployment of at least 10 000 paramilitary troops to the troubled region despite authorities’ asserti...
About 115 people are missing and feared to have drowned and another 134 were rescued by Libyan coast guards and local fishermen after a wooden boat carrying migrants caps...
Rating agency Fitch has revised its outlook on South Africa’s credit rating from stable to negative. It, however, affirmed the country’s long-term foreign and local curre...
Saudi Arabia has banned entry to travellers coming from Democratic Republic of Congo over fears Ebola could spread during next month’s haj pilgrimage. The decision, annou...
Jihadists aligned with the Islamic State group released a video Thursday purporting to show a female aid worker and five male colleagues kidnapped in an attack in northea...
Reuel Khoza has been elected the new Public Investment Corporation chairman. This is after cabinet decided the position will no longer be filled by a deputy finance minis...
Three bombs rocked the Afghan capital of Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 45, officials said, as the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff ...
Fighting erupted Tuesday near South Sudan’s capital Juba between government forces and militants who have refused to sign a peace deal, a rebel group said. Security was s...
Beer giant Anheuser-Busch InBev said Thursday that profits rose in the second quarter as it achieved its best volume sales performance in five years. The Belgian-Brazilia...
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Wednesday told a dramatic US congressional hearing he had not exonerated President Donald Trump of obstruction of justice an...
Armed gangs have killed a soldier and 18 civilians, including two children, in machete and gun attacks in volatile northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), officials...
National Treasury says the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has been given eleven conditions to comply with before it can get financial support from the gove...
President Donald Trump on Tuesday sued to block a U.S. House of Representatives committee from obtaining his New York state tax returns, with his lawyer accusing the Demo...
Zimbabwean Vice President, Constantino Chiwenga has been flown to China to receive medical treatment. He had receiving treatment in a South African hospital earlier ...
Delegates at the Allan Gray Investment Summit in Sandton, north of Johannesburg, have heard that South Africa still presents attractive investment opportunities despite t...
Theresa May had a mission to fight Britain’s “burning injustices” through strong and stable leadership, but her legacy as prime minister will be anything but. The Conserv...
At least seven fighters loyal to Libyan National Army (LNA) forces commanded by Khalifa Haftar were killed overnight in a drone strike in southern Tripoli, a military sou...
South Korea’s largest automaker, Hyundai Motor, saw net profit pick up by almost a quarter in April-June thanks to its sport utility vehicles (SUV) and weak won. Net prof...
Japan’s ruling coalition has retained its grip on the country’s upper house, but failed to secure a “supermajority” that would ease the path to constitutional reform, res...
She may have spent 40 days in jail for demonstrating against President Omar al-Bashir who has since been toppled, but activist Amani Osmane says the battle for women’s ri...
British Airways has suspended flights to Cairo for seven days as a precautionary measure following a security review. The airline made the announcement on Saturday. Germa...
A female suicide bomber killed six people, including two policemen, in Pakistan’s restive northwest on Sunday in an attack claimed by the Taliban, officials said. The att...
Insurgents have kidnapped at least one person working for an international aid organisation, Action Against Hunger, in north-eastern Nigeria, sources said on Friday. The ...
President Cyril Ramaphosa says Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) will not be scrapped. He was replying to a call by Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane ...
Iran’s deputy foreign minister Abbas Araghchi denied on Friday having lost any drone recently and hinted that the US could have downed their own “by mistake.” “We have no...
It’s the second day of the DELTAS Africa scientific conference in Dakar, Senegal. On Wednesday, young African scientists and researchers spent the day presenting results ...
Former Public Investment Corporation (PIC) CEO, Dr Dan Matjila has denied receiving R5 million cash from VBS in return for facilitating funding for the now defunct mutual...