Africa

2 months ago | March 14, 2023

NEW: Cyclone Freddy death toll hits 99, rescue mission underway

  The death toll from Tropical Cyclone Freddy in Malawi reached 99 yesterday (Monday) evening, with 85 deaths ...

3 months ago | February 27, 2023

NEW: Bodies wash from graves in Mozambique amid floods

Bodies from a cemetery on the banks of Umbeluze River near the Mozambican capital Maputo have been swept by floods into ...

5 months ago | January 3, 2023

NEW: Lawmakers jailed for kicking pregnant colleague

  TWO opposition Members of Parliament in Senegal have been given six-month jail sentences for kicking a pregnant ...

11 months ago | June 27, 2022

NEW: 22 young people die in South African tavern

  South African authorities are investigating the deaths of at least 22 young people found inside a popular tavern ...

11 months ago | June 16, 2022

NEW: Dozens still missing two months after SA’s worst floods

  NEARLY 90 people are still missing two months after the worst floods in living memory swept through South ...

11 months ago | June 15, 2022

NEW: Moza’s female force policing violence against women

  An angry husband grabs his wife and raises his fist to strike her.   But the gesture isn’t real ...

12 months ago | June 6, 2022

NEW: Police lock station in fear of crime

  WHEN it gets dark in Ga-Rankuwa — which is near Pretoria, South Africa — the police lock themselves in the ...

12 months ago | June 1, 2022

NEW: Get greater involvement in STEM, Africa urged

  Africans have been called on to get more involved in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) to ...

1 year ago | May 25, 2022

NEW: Africa Day: AU harps on nutrition

  TODAY, May 25, the continent celebrates Africa Day, which marks the anniversary of the signing of the OAU ...

1 year ago | March 17, 2022

NEW: Africa’s groundwater reserves in face of climate change

  Groundwater reserves in Africa are estimated to be 20 times larger than the water stored in lakes and reservoirs ...

1 year ago | December 26, 2021

Anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Tutu dies

  SOUTH AFRICAN anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has died.   He was 90.   ...

2 years ago | October 22, 2021

‘We will come after you’

PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday marked the 35th anniversary of the death of Mozambique’s first president Samora ...

Africa’s glaciers to melt

AFRICA’S fabled eastern glaciers will vanish in two decades, 118 million poor people face immanent drought, floods or ...

Reflection on Mwalimu Julius Nyerere

Catherine Mbaga and Alex Nelson Malanga THE period of October 14-24, marks the final journey of Mwalimu Julius Kambarage ...

2 years ago | September 24, 2021

SA’s long walk to freedom

Alef Meulenberg THE struggle against systemic apartheid may be over, but that doesn’t mean South Africa is truly at ...