At least eight people have been killed, and dozens injured, by a huge fuel tanker explosion near a hospital east of Johannesburg, local media report.
The tanker appeared to have got stuck under a low bridge on Saturday morning in Boksburg city, (...)
AlHijjah 22, 1432, Nov 18, 2011, SPA -- One of South Africa's most influential newspapers accused a top presidential spokesman on Friday of censoring an article about his possible involvement in a shady arms deal, according to Reuters.
The incident (...)
AlHijjah 19, 1432, Nov 15, 2011, SPA - Twenty people were killed when two minibuses and a truck collided in South Africa on Tuesday, police said.
The accident occurred on a highway Leeu-Gamka and Prince Albert Road in the Western Cape Province (...)
AlQa'dah 29, 1432, Oct 27, 2011, SPA -- Police lined the streets of South Africa's commercial capital on Thursday with hundreds of youths set to march to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and Chamber of Mines demanding big changes to an economy still (...)
AlQa'dah 20, 1432, Oct 18, 2011, SPA - A small plane carrying 11 people has crashed in the Okavango Delta region of Botswana killing at least eight
people, according to the Botswana civil aviation authority.
The accident took place on Friday and (...)
AlQa'dah 19, 1432, Oct 17, 2011, SPA - Five Kenyan soldiers died in a helicopter crash in the north of the country, the defence ministry confirmed on Monday.
The helicopter went up in flames on Sunday evening, according to a report of the German (...)
AlQa'dah 18, 1432, Oct 16, 2011, SPA -- Kenyan troops were operating inside Somalia
on Sunday, local media reported, in an apparent effort to capture
militants accused of kidnapping four foreigners in recent weeks,
including two aid workers, dpa (...)
AlQa'dah 18, 1432, Oct 16, 2011, SPA -- Kenyan troops moved over the border into Somalia Sunday, after top Kenyan ministers pledged soldiers would hunt down gunmen suspected of kidnapping four Europeans in recent
weeks, including two humanitarian (...)
AlQa'dah 16, 1432, Oct 14, 2011, SPA -- Seven people were killed in a pre-dawn raid on Friday in a village in central Kenya, in what appeared to be the latest attack in a feud over resources between two farming
communities, according to dpa.
The (...)
AlQa'dah 2, 1432, Sep 30, 2011, SPA -- A minibus and a truck collided on Friday on a freeway in south-eastern South Africa, killing 13 people and injuring seven, local media reported.
According to dpa, the bus was found by rescue workers underneath (...)
A man was bitten on Wednesday by a shark near Cape Town, in western South Africa, dpa cited the SAPA news agency as reporting.
The adult male was being treated for injuries in hospital. Further
details of the attack, which occurred at a point (...)
The European Union's fourth annual summit
with South Africa on Thursday is set to eye expanding economic links
through new trade deals, according to dpa.
Last year, South Africa exported nearly 30 billion dollars' worth
of goods to European (...)
An Angolan Air Force plane, carrying reported 36 people, crashed Wednesday in the central province of Huambo, killing at least three generals, the dpa reported.
State news agency Angop quoted a military source as saying that six people survived (...)
At least 20 people are confirmed dead and 120 had been rescued after a ship carrying up to 800 people sank off the Tanzanian coast in the early hours of Saturday, an emergency official said.
"Rescue efforts are still going on as we talk," Joseph (...)
Fresh sectarian clashes overnight killed at least 12 people in central Nigeria.
A group of farmers were attacked by herdsmen, according to a report of the German Press Agency "DPA".
"A cycle of violence has emerged in which each incident almost (...)
The police minister says South Africa's murder rate fell by 6.5 percent in the past year to 15,940 - the lowest number since the end of apartheid, according to AP.
Minister Nathi Mthethwa says the number of reported rapes increased and noted that (...)
A sixth region of Somalia is officially suffering from famine conditions, the United Nations said on Monday, raising to 4 million the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance in the country.
The UN said the Bay Region in the south is the (...)
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said elections will be held in early 2012 and accused his rivals of stalling the process to write a new constitution to prolong the life of a fragile unity government, local media reported on Saturday.
According (...)
The African Union is to hold a fund-raiser Thursday to help raise money for humanitarian relief efforts in the drought-stricken Horn of Africa, dpa reported.
The United Nations says it needs 2.4 billion dollars for its aid work in countries such (...)
South Africa's ruling African National Congress on Friday charged controversial youth leader Julius Malema with "sowing divisions" in its ranks and bringing the party into disrepute, according to Reuters.
If Malema, president of the ANC Youth (...)
A South African mother found her missing son
after a five-year search, with social-networking site Facebook
helping locate the boy, the Sowetan newspaper reported on Friday, according to dpa.
However, she will still have to wait for a DNA test (...)
South Africa President Jacob Zuma,
accompanied by several ministers and a business delegation, began an
official two-day visit to Burundi on Thursday, according to dpa,
South Africa mediated long-running talks in Burundi, during that
country's (...)
Gloomy comments from South Africa's central bank on the impact of global financial turmoil on the country's capital formation, key to growth, were the backdrop to a fall in bond yields and a volatile day for the rand, which ended down against the (...)
South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan on Thursday defended a decision to lend cash-strapped Swaziland 2.5 billion rand ($370 million) after critics said it threw a lifeline to an absolute monarch running the state as a person fiefdom, (...)
South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said no progress was made in talks on Monday to end a strike against the country's main gold producers that is costing them up to $25 million a day in lost output, according to Reuters.
The talks (...)