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The global recession is not dampening America's international drive to stop AIDS, the head of the campaign said Wednesday.
An African has taken over as director of Greenpeace, bringing experience honed as a teenage opponent of white rule in South Africa and a network of powerful contacts to the battle against global warming.
An official from the island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned says rabbits killed to control an infestation will be fed to the poor.
A struggle over how to manage South Africa's state-owned power company has opened debates on racism in the boardroom and political meddling in a country where politics and race remain a volatile mix.
China's premier on Sunday pledged $10 billion in new low interest loans to African nations over three years, offering the beleaguered continent sorely needed cash while dismissing criticism that Beijing's motives in Africa are far from altruistic.
South Africa's government says it has canceled a contract to buy eight Airbus military aircraft that had set off a debate about public spending.
The South African track chief who lied about his role in runner Caster Semenya's gender tests was suspended Thursday.
The global recession and pressure to divert funds to other health crises are hurting the fight against AIDS, a medical group warned Thursday, with one health worker saying he feared a return to the days when the AIDS virus was a death sentence in Africa.
A mother watched with dread as a nurse inserted a tube in her baby's head. Blood streamed into the anemic 4-month-old who already has malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills a million African children every year.
China is offering to abolish import duties on some commodities from Africa and make sure Chinese exports to the continent are safe as part of a package to boost already thriving economic ties, China's commerce minister said in an article published Saturday.
A $7 billion mining deal between Guinea's repressive military regime and a little-known Chinese company underscores China's full-throttle rush into Africa and its willingness to deal with brutal and corrupt governments.
The pope has appointed Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson to head the Vatican's justice and peace office.
Pope Benedict XVI ended a three-week Vatican meeting on Africa Sunday with a call for peace and reconciliation among all people on the continent, regardless of ethnic and religious differences.
An African Union official is accusing Chinese investors of overlooking bad governance while doing business in Africa.
A new self-serving book by a central African president lists Nelson Mandela as the writer of the glowing foreword, but South Africa's iconic leader says he never wrote those words or even read the tome, and his foundation vowed to take action.
A champion runner at the center of a gender controversy is set to take university final exams, her father said Friday, contradicting earlier reports she was too traumatized to study.
African cardinals denounced the "cultural imperialism" of wealthy countries in their aid, trade and health care policies for Africa, saying Wednesday that the West's promotion of abortion rights and condoms is destroying the continent's moral fabric.
Protesters barricaded a major highway with rocks and burning tires Thursday, clashing with police who fired on them with rubber bullets. Youths retaliated with slingshots and threw rocks.
Three South African track associations want the country's top officials in the sport to resign over the gender dispute involving world 800-meters champion Caster Semenya.
African bishops attending a Vatican meeting are speaking about the election of Barack Obama in divine terms — putting them very much at odds with many of their U.S. counterparts.
More than 2 million babies and mothers die worldwide each year from childbirth complications, outnumbering child deaths from malaria and HIV/AIDS, according to a study.
The corruption trial of South Africa's ex-top cop is opening a window into a shady world of criminal kingpins and alleged graft at the highest levels in law enforcement.
African nuns told a Vatican meeting Friday they want more of a say in running the Catholic Church on the continent, saying they have special talents and shouldn't be left to clean churches and mend vestments.
South Africa's intelligence minister says a former underground intelligence agent and close ally of President Jacob Zuma will head the country's Secret Services agency.
South Africa's governing party wants champion runner Caster Semenya to compete as a woman regardless of any gender tests.
Video: Whitewashing the History of Islam"Even today… Islamic fundamentalism is maintaining the idea of enslaving a non-Muslim." Who said these ignorant Islamophobic words? Some hate-filled racist European, right? Wrong! The speaker was Dr. Keul Jok, a black African from the Sudan.
Prehistoric Masterpieces: The Swimmers and The BeastThe inhospitable plateau of Gilf Kebir in the far south-west Egyptian desert was once home to an early Egyptian civilization, who left behind spectacular cave art.
Nigeria budget delayed by squabbling politiciansNigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua has refused to present next year's budget because of a row between the House of Representatives and the Senate. The two groups were meant to gather in the House of Representatives to hear the budget speech - but the senators refused to go.
Ancient crocodiles came in many forms, and some ate dinosaursAfrica, the National Geographic says, was a land of dinosaurs and crocodiles. Fortunately some of the crocs actually ate dinos so that kept some of their numbers in check. There were crocs with pancake-like heads, and some that ate fish.
Let them eat snail: Nutritional giant snails could address malnutritionA nutritionist in Nigeria says that malnutrition and iron deficiency in schoolchildren could be reduced in her country by baking up snail pie.
Plane misses runway in east Congo, landing in lavaA passenger plane overshot the runway Thursday, landing in hardened lava surrounding an airport in eastern Congo and injuring 20 people, a U.N.-run radio station reported.
BBC News - Egypt recalls Algerian envoy as football row deepensThe Egyptian government has recalled its ambassador to Algeria following complaints about violence toward football fans, reports say. The move comes hours after Algeria's ambassador in Cairo was summoned to the Egyptian foreign ministry.
Ugandan MP Proposes Death Penalty for 'Aggravated Homosexuality' A person commits aggravated homosexuality when the victim is a person with disability or below the age of 18, or when the offender is HIV-positive.
Ancient Human Metropolis Found in Africahey have always been there. People noticed them before. But no one could remember who made them -- or why? Until just recently, no one even knew how many there were.
Would you send your child to a boarding school in Africa to get them out of the ghetto?Would you send your child to school halfway across the world if it meant the chance to escape the distractions of a dangerous neighborhood?
Somali pirates again attack Maersk AlabamaSomali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama for the second time in seven months on Wednesday, but guards on board the U.S.-flagged cargo ship repelled the takeover attempt.
Mobile Phones Report Rapes in GuineaOn September 28, 2009, rapes and killings of hundreds of anti-dictator protestors in broad daylight in Conakry brought the world's attention to the small West African nation of Guinea.
Is it time to privatise rugby in South Africa?It's time to privatise rugby in South Africa. Nothing has been more frustrating in the so-called "professional era" of rugby union since 1995 than to watch the sport turn into the epitome of crony corporatism.
Somali pirates free 36, claim $3 million ransomPirates freed 36 crew members from a Spanish trawler Tuesday, and a self-proclaimed pirate said the hostage-takers were paid $3.3 million in ransom.
Top Hutu militia leaders arrested in GermanyTwo top leaders of a mostly ethnic Hutu militia were arrested in Germany Wednesday on suspicion of committing crimes against humanity in Congo .
Mugabe defends land reforms, attacks West | World news | Chron.com - Houston ChronicleMugabe defends land reforms, attacks West ROME — Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe used the U.N. summit on world hunger Tuesday to lash out at the West and defend land reforms blamed for plunging his people into starvation.
Global migration: Where the trains run on time[Manila, Philippines] The results of a poll recently released by the US-based Gallup Organization say that some 700 million people worldwide would move to another country if they could.
Kenyans recruited to fight in SomaliaThousands of people are being secretly recruited and trained inside Kenya to battle Islamic insurgents in neighboring Somalia, according to deserters, local officials, and families.
Judge overturns Rwandan genocide convictionA U.N. appeals court overturns the conviction of the former Rwandan president's brother-in-law, who had been sentenced to 20 years for organizing a massacre that left about 1,000 dead during the 1994 genocide.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Ghost trees 'haunt' London squareTrees from a damaged rain forest from Africa are now settled in Trafalgar Square in London to provoke thought and awareness about climate change.
AP IMPACT: Kenyans recruited to fight in SomaliaThe recruits assembled by moonlight at a watering hole. Hundreds of boys and young Kenyan men were herded onto trucks, which were covered with heavy canvas and driven through the night.
Traditional Rulers Urged to Apologise On Slave TradeFollowing the resolution of the US Senate on June 18, formally apologising for fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery and the noticeable attempts by some heads of governments, and global opinion leaders to wash off the blights and stains regarding the …
New Greenpeace chief has fought apartheid, povertyA South African who battled apartheid as a teen, then went on to lead global campaigns to end poverty and protect human rights took over Monday as the new international head of the environmental group Greenpeace.
Africa must think big to thriveMany African states are too small to continue to exist independently, Sudan-born magnate Mo Ibrahim has told a conference in Tanzania. Mr Ibrahim said the idea that 53 small African countries thought they could compete with China, India, Europe and the US was a "fallacy".
A Fulbright in Nigeria That Turned Into a ShowMany things have happened since Dan Hoyle performed in the premiere of "Tings Dey Happen," his incendiary and brilliant solo show about Nigerian oil politics, nearly three years ago at the compact theater the Marsh in San Francisco.
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