LAKE VICTORIA looks an inviting place for a quick dip. Don’t. Its waters are replete with tiny parasitic worms, called schistosomes, that drill through human skin and damage organs ranging from the ...
East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) MP Winnie Odinga has expressed heartfelt gratitude to Congolese music icon Fally ...
From Lagos to the Grammys, Nigerian singer-songwriter Tems has conquered the global stage without compromising who she is. “Authenticity is everything to me,” she says. “That’s the one thing I cannot ...
JOHANNESBURG, Sept 29 (Reuters) - South Africa's commodity-backed rand rose on Monday on higher gold prices, while traders eyed a slew of local economic data that could offer clues on the health of ...
JOHANNESBURG, Oct 1 (Reuters) - The South African rand strengthened on Wednesday, supported by upbeat purchasing managers' index data for the local manufacturing sector and a softer U.S. dollar. At ...
AFRICA’S DEBT isn’t uniquely high; it is uniquely expensive. Despite having much lower debt-to-GDP ratios than the high-income countries of the G7—67%, on average, compared to 126%—African countries ...
Mthethwa, 58, began serving as South Africa’s envoy to France in December 2023 – his latest role in a series of high-profile portfolios that included stints as police minister, as well as the minister ...
Somalia will begin preparations to boost teaching of the Swahili language in schools and universities, its president says. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud made the announcement on Tuesday at an East ...
French cops had launched a search after his wife reported a 'worrying message' SOUTH Africa’s ambassador to France has died after reportedly plunging from the 22nd floor of a famous Paris hotel.
Discover notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. And yet Nkrumah’s political program was maddeningly miscellaneous, or just vague. He was some kind of socialist, not quite a communist, definitely ...
England had to chase just 70 and did in 14.1 overs. The whole match lasted 34.5 overs, not even the duration of a full T20. After one game, England's net run rate sits at 3.773 - more than double that ...
From Cameroon’s Biya, who has ruled since 1982, to Nigeria’s Tinubu, now 73, the continent’s leadership ranks are filled with presidents old enough to be grandfathers to many of their citizens. Africa ...