Cote d’Ivoire put in a thrilling performance but had to settle for a 0-0 draw with Portugal in their 2010 FIFA World Cup Group G clash at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth on Tuesday. A point is certainly not a bad haul for either...

Rwanda’s army has arrested the president of the national football federation, General Jean Bosco Kazura, for travelling in South Africa without permission, a spokesperson said on Friday. Kazura, a senior figure in President Paul Kagame’s...

A US lawyer has been arrested on allegations of genocide denial, days after arriving in Rwanda, the nation’s police force has said. Peter Erlinder had arrived to help defend opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, who was charged with...

The Department of Health has apologized for the deaths last week of six babies at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and 10 at Natalspruit Hospital on the East Rand. The Department says it’s investigating several factors to determine...

Mothers and children have frequent access to healthcare facilities, but the poor quality of care they receive is leading to unnecessary deaths, a new report from the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) shows. The findings, which are in line with the...

Chadian Prime Minister Youssouf Saleh Abbas has resigned, a statement from the presidency of the West African state said on Friday.

Homeless South Africans complained on Thursday they were being forced from the streets of Cape Town to make way for a host of star-studded, glamorous events surrounding next year’s World Cup tournament. Isaac Lewis, 41, said police have arrested...

There is a new man in South Africa,” proclaims a new ad splashed across South African media, aiming to transform ideas about sexuality and to enlist the nation’s men in the fight against AIDS. This new South African man’s “self...

The finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, told his compatriots to hang up their hopes for a speedy recovery on Monday, predicting South Africa’s recession would be deeper and longer lasting than that of other countries. “We are at a time when there is...

The European Union envoys on Thursday warned Kenya that their countries will help the International Criminal Court to deal with election violence suspects. They said the EU will extend the same kind of help to the ICC it gave in the case of the...