A cholera outbreak in southern Niger has killed 12 people and infected 201 others across three regions, with heavy rains helping to further spread the disease, the country's health minister said on Monday.

A Chinese court on Tuesday rejected Canadian Robert Schellenberg's appeal against a death sentence for drug smuggling.

Software group founder quits as three months of leave come to an end.

Rare summer flooding submerged Venice's famed Piazza San Marco in up to a metre of water overnight.

A small group of protesters on Tuesday painted slogans in support of climate action on Australia's parliament and the prime minister's residence, as the government failed to give assurances of stronger targets to reduce carbon emissions.

Gauteng police have arrested one person after a man was ambushed and attacked in Erasmia, Tshwane, on Monday.

Britain's Prince Andrew was sued on Monday for having allegedly on three occasions sexually abused a woman who says she was trafficked for sex by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The first woman president of Cosatu, Zingiswa Losi, said despite women being in leadership positions, they continue to be underrepresented in the workplace.

A 30-year-old man was arrested after the body of a woman was allegedly found in his shack in the Eastern Cape on Sunday, police said.

A 20-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly stabbed another man to death at a tavern in a township near Rustenburg in the North West, police said on Tuesday.

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Taliban militants captured a sixth provincial Afghan capital on Monday, a lawmaker said, after they ousted Afghan security forces from border towns and trade routes as US-led foreign forces pull out.

Eskom has placed employees under precautionary suspension after a preliminary investigation into the explosion at the Medupi power plant.

Extreme heatwaves that previously only struck once every 50 years are now expected to happen once per decade because of global warming, while downpours and droughts have also become more frequent, a UN climate science report said on Monday.

A defiant President Alexander Lukashenko said on Monday a Belarusian sprinter defected at the Olympic Games only because she had been "manipulated" by outside forces and shrugged off new British sanctions.

A Rwandan immigrant walked into French police station on Monday and said he had murdered the Catholic priest giving him shelter while he awaited possible trial over a fire at a cathedral last year, official sources said.

A 30-year-old North West man fled to a different province after trying to conceal the murder of his girlfriend.

A 51-year-old woman was murdered in her home in rural KwaZulu-Natal at the weekend, police confirmed.

An East London government clerk gambled away her pension when a couple of “traditional healers” told her they would multiply her fortunes and make her an instant millionaire.

One abducted girl from the Nigerian town of Chibok has been freed and reunited with her parents seven years after Boko Haram militants kidnapped her and more than 200 of her classmates, Borno state's governor said on Saturday.

Dros rapist Nicholas Ninow has been charged for possession of a cellphone in Baviaanspoort prison where he is serving a life sentence.

Former President Donald Trump mounted an intense pressure campaign on the US Justice Department to overturn his election defeat in his final weeks in office, the department's head during that time testified to lawmakers, a senior Senate Democrat said...

Zambia's President Edgar Lungu will seek to fend off a perennial opposition challenger in a vote on Thursday that may be decided by frustrated young voters amid economic turmoil and a pending bailout for one of Africa's most indebted nations.

Democratic Republic of Congo's environment ministry has suspended the director of the nature conservation agency responsible for protecting the country's UNESCO-listed national parks, an official letter shared widely online on Sunday showed.

SA has vaccinated more than 8-million citizens from different age groups with the J&J and Pfizer jabs, acting minister in the presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said on Thursday.

A 12-hour work shift has been Boniswa Mbovane's life for the past two decades.

More than half of SA's national parks will not accept payment in cash from September 1 in a bid to reduce the risks of handling money.