By Mark Gleeson LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – Didier Drogba’s ghosts returned to haunt him as Zambia won the African Nations Cup for the first time after beating
GENEVA (Reuters) – La Nina, a weather phenomenon usually linked to heavy rains and flooding in Asia-Pacific and South America and drought in Africa, seems to
By Tiisetso Motsoeneng and Sherilee Lakmidas JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – President Jacob Zuma squashed more than two years of talk on Friday about the nationalisation of South
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s ruling ANC has delayed final sentencing for suspended Youth League leader Julius Malema, who lost an appeal this weekend against charges
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Suspected militants from the Boko Haram Islamist sect have killed six people in shootings in Nigeria’s remote northeastern Borno state in the
The carefully orchestrated strikes in the northern Nigeria city of Kano are reminiscent of Al Qaeda attacks, and dwarf previous assaults by the Islamic group
Crowds throng Cairo’s Tahrir Square to celebrate free elections and commemorate the revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak, and to curse ruling generals for crushing
By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia has lifted its suspension of 35 athletes, including double Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele, an athletics official said on
JOHANNESBURG — Madagascar’s ousted president left South Africa Saturday after three years in exile, saying he wanted to help restore peace and democracy in his