The Archbishop of Canterbury has announced he will step down from his role following a damning report into a prolific child abuser associated with the Church of England.
The review found that Justin Welby, 68, "could and should" have reported John (...)
South Africa's parliament has re-elected Cyril Ramaphosa as the country's president following a landmark coalition deal between the governing African National Congress (ANC) and opposition parties.
The new government of national unity combines (...)
Early results from South Africa's election suggest the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party could lose its majority for the first time in 30 years.
With results in from 13% of polling stations at 10 a.m. local time, support for the ANC stood (...)
Inside a busy primary school classroom in the South Africa seaside town of Saldanha Bay, one chair is left empty.
This is where six-year-old Joshlin Smith sits — or sat until she went missing in February in a case that has gripped the attention of (...)
South Africa's battle-scarred former President Jacob Zuma is proving he still has a winning streak — recently scoring a hat-trick in the courtroom.
For the third time in the last month the 82-year-old has thwarted attempts to stop him, or his new (...)
South African footballer Luke Fleurs has been shot dead in a car hijacking, his team says.
The shooting took place at a petrol station on Wednesday night in the Johannesburg suburb of Florida.
The 24-year-old was waiting to be attended to when he (...)
Few political turnarounds can match the last month in Senegal.
Just over two weeks ago, Bassirou Diomaye Faye was a little-known opposition leader languishing in jail, detained without trial on charges including inciting insurrection, who had never (...)
Alejandro Gomez has been without proper running water for more than three months. Sometimes it comes on for an hour or two, but only a small trickle, barely enough to fill a couple of buckets. Then nothing for many days.
Gomez, who lives in Mexico (...)
On December 16, the JAECOO 7 media test drive event unfolded with grandeur at a lavish resort in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Distinguished leaders from the Ministry of Investment and the Chinese Embassy in Saudi Arabia graced the occasion, witnessing (...)
An accident at a platinum mine in South Africa has killed 11 workers and injured 75, the mine's operator says.
Impala Platinum chief executive Nico Muller described it as the "darkest day" in the the company's history.
The company said the accident (...)
A copy of the Holy Qur'an, neatly handwritten more than 200 years ago by an Indonesian imam who had been banished to the southern tip of Africa by Dutch colonizers — is the pride of Cape Town Muslims who jealously guard it at a mosque in the city's (...)
RIYADH — On behalf of Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman, Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan is leading Saudi Arabia's delegation attending the BRICS Plus Dialogue and BRICS-Africa Outreach conference. The foreign minister (...)
The Ukrainian government has spotted an opportunity to strengthen its diplomatic ties in Africa as Russia tries to cling on to major allies there.
As the BRICS summit gets underway in Johannesburg this week, bringing together the main players of (...)
Russia fired missiles on Kyiv this morning, according to Ukrainian authorities, just as a delegation of African leaders arrived to promote a peace plan.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko confirmed that at least one explosion had been heard in the capital. (...)
The Council of Ministers on Tuesday commended the agreement reached at the 35th ministerial meeting of the OPEC+ countries regarding the level of production for 2024 and the voluntary Saudi cuts in precautionary moves aimed at supporting oil market (...)
CAPE TOWN — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan has said the Kingdom is the largest trading partner of the BRICS group in the Middle East.
He made the remarks during a ministerial meeting of the BRICS Friends in Cape Town on Friday. (...)
CAPE TOWN — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan met on Friday with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian in Cape Town, on the sidelines of the Ministerial Meeting of Friends of BRICS Group.
During the meeting, they discussed (...)
Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan met on Thursday with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the Ministerial Meeting of Friends of BRICS Group in Cape Town, South Africa.
During the meeting, the two (...)
The Vice-Minister for Mining Affairs, Eng. Khalid Al-Mudaifer, is leading the Saudi Arabia delegation at Africa's leading mining industry event, Mining Indaba. The event is taking place in Cape Town, South Africa February 6-9 under the theme (...)
Professor Peng Wang, an environmental scientist and engineer at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), has been honored with the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Water Award for research that uses renewable energy to (...)
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa was forced this week to cancel a trip to Davos by an escalating energy crisis that is inflicting rolling blackouts on the continent's most developed economy.
Ramaphosa swapped his trip to the World Economic (...)
South Africa's government insists it will allow a Russian oligarch to dock his superyacht in Cape Town, despite calls from the city's mayor to bar it.
The vessel, which is on its way from Hong Kong, belongs to Alexei Mordashov, an ally of Russia's (...)
South Africa condemned strongly the raids launched by Israeli occupation on Gaza Strip, which are continuing for the third day in a row.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, in a statement, that the continued attacks put innocent civilians in grave (...)
President Cyril Ramaphosa of the Republic of South Africa received here today, Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Qattan, Advisor at the Royal Court of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
During the meeting, Advisor Qattan, who is currently on a visit to South Africa, (...)
A high-level delegation from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources (MIM), led by Minister Bandar Al-Khorayef, concluded its visit to South Africa, which included participating in Mining Indaba, Africa's leading (...)
