After months of speculation about the president's relationship with Ntuli-Zuma, sources said the reason she had been cast out related to suspicion by the president of her involvement in an alleged plan to poison him. She now lives in Durban North...
Paul Mthabela, who is also a witness against Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir, gave this explanation on Friday in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court, where he testified against suspended Midrand magistrate Johannes Kgomo. Kgomo allegedly solicited a...
American and British spies hacked into the world’s largest sim card manufacturer in a move that gave them unfettered access to billions of cellphones around the globe and looks set to spark another international row into overreach by espionage...
Geingob, 73, who is the incumbent Prime Minister of Namibia and twice divorced, married businesswoman Kalondo, who is about 30 years his junior. The wedding ceremony was held at the Windhoek Country Club Resort. Local media reports say only 125...
Sources said up to 27 members of the presidential security and advance team who seemed immobilised as Mugabe tripped and tumbled after addressing hundreds of Zanu PF supporters who had been bussed to welcome him on his return from the African Union...
Abbo Moro said he had been advised by the military that enough troops would be available in six weeks' time to secure the presidential ballot. Officials say they delayed the vote to 28 March because troops needed for security are fighting the...
No trace of the Beijing-bound aircraft has been found since it disappeared on 8 March 2014. Officials say that the recovery operation is ongoing but that the 239 people onboard are now presumed dead. The plane's whereabouts are still unknown...
Hope FM said on its Facebook account that a "foreign signal" had interfered with its broadcast on Tuesday night. It resumed transmission about three hours later. Last week, a hacker infiltrated the website of Kenya's privately owned The Star...
They said many of those kidnapped in the cross border attack against villages were children. Four villagers who tried to fend off the attackers were killed, a security source has told the BBC. Boko Haram has seized control of towns and villages in...
AfriLeaks will give people a chance to leak sensitive information anonymously. The site's founders say it is an attempt to boost investigative journalism to expose widespread corruption and human rights abuses. It will also help circumvent growing...
Ignatius Kaigama said the world had to show more determination to halt the group's advance in Nigeria. He said the international community had to show the same spirit and resolve it had done after the attacks in France. His warning came after 23...
Hundreds of bodies – too many to count – remain strewn in the bush in Nigeria from an Islamic extremist attack that Amnesty International described as the “deadliest massacre” in the history of Boko Haram. Fighting...
At least two masked attackers opened fire with assault rifles in the office and exchanged shots with police in the street outside before escaping by car. The gunmen shouted "we have avenged the Prophet Muhammad", witnesses say. President Francois...
Saturday, 8 March Flight MH 370 disappears Malaysia Airline Flight MH370 disappeared on Saturday, 8 March 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, to Beijing International Airport, China. The aircraft carrying 227...
Presidential elections to choose a permanent successor will be held within 90 days, Defence Minister Edgar Lungu said. Mr Scott becomes Africa's first white head of state since FW de Klerk in apartheid South Africa. Mr Sata died in the UK aged 77...
The film begins in a blur. An angry mob and a policewoman can just be made out, gathered in a circle on the dusty ground. As the camera finds its focus, the grim reality becomes clear. In the middle of the circle sits a woman, almost naked, her body...
The KCNA agency said on Tuesday that Mr Kim "gave field guidance" at a newly-built scientists' residential district. Rodong Sinmun daily newspaper carried several photographs of Mr Kim using a walking stick as he inspected the site. The absence of...
The outbreak, which has killed some 4,000 people in West Africa, has led to a "crisis for international peace and security", WHO head Margaret Chan said. She also warned of the cost of panic "spreading faster than the virus". Meanwhile, medics have...
"The worst-hit countries now face widespread chaos and, potentially, collapse," the International Crisis Group (ICG) said. The world's largest outbreak of Ebola has caused 2,811 deaths so far, mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Meanwhile,...
"I am greatly saddened to announce that 67 South Africans died and scores of others sustained injuries, after a building at the Synagogue Church of All Nations collapsed on Friday," Zuma said in statement to the nation. Rescuers say the church's...
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