Rebellious Tigrayan forces said on Saturday they had seized the strategic town of Dessie in Ethiopia's Amhara region where tens of thousands of ethnic Amharas have sought refuge from an escalation in fighting, but the government denied this.

A second body has been found and almost six hours of fire fighting efforts have finally brought a massive blaze in Jacobs, south of Durban, under control.

A bomb that looked like a "jackfruit" killed at least two children in a Ugandan village on Friday, after being given to the children while they were playing, a senior police official said.

Security forces shot dead three people during nationwide protests in Sudan on Saturday, a doctors committee said, as hundreds of thousands of people demanded the restoration of a civilian-led government after a military coup.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth, who has been advised by doctors to rest and avoid official visits for at least the next two weeks, is on very good form, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said after speaking to the 95-year-old monarch this week.

Nineteen Haitians died when a boat transporting them between the southern coastal settlements of Anse-a-Pitre and Marigot sank in the early hours of Saturday morning, Prime Minister Ariel Henry said.

Former President Donald Trump is seeking to block January 6 investigators from seeing hundreds of pages of White House documents that include his handwritten notes as well as phone call logs, the US National Archives and Records Administration told a...

The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorised the Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE coronavirus vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 years, making it the first Covid-19 shot for young children in the United States.

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Westedene, Johannesburg, resident Amy Scholtz fears for her life as send-off gun shots at a nearby cemetery escalate.

Johannesburg's City Power is seeing red over Eskom’s refusal to exempt it from load-shedding.

Madolo told the court how sergeants Deon Muller and Zandisile Ngqandu assaulted him, pointed a gun at him and detained him in Libode, Eastern Cape.

A business entity that was allegedly used to defraud the Eastern Province Rugby Union of more than R450,000 has been hauled before court.

A disgruntled Western Cape prosecutor who was not shortlisted for a senior position has failed to interdict his employer.

The Covid-19 lockdown has left women at high risk of domestic violence, a new study has found.

Getting vaccines into at least 40% of the population can prevent more than 9-million Covid-19 infections and more than 73,000 deaths in SA, say US modellers.

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Transnet reported a massive R8.4bn net loss for the year ended March 2021 as the group came to grips with the fallout from the pandemic, as well as unusual environmental expenses, impairments and some one-off third party claims..

The oldest funeral services company in Zimbabwe, Doves, reportedly buried an empty coffin in in error, and then secretly buried the body months later without informing the family.

Scammers, including a police intern, who cloned government vehicle petrol cards were arrested at a Paarl petrol station while filling up containers with fuel.

Four people have been killed, including a 15-year-old boy, in a fire that broke out at a gun store in Glenanda, in the south of Johannesburg.

Police have denied a media report that arrests have been made in the kidnapping case involving the four Moti brothers.

Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc. won approval to run an initial clinical trial for its orally delivered Covid-19 vaccine candidate in SA.

There were 475 new Covid-19 cases and 47 deaths recorded in SA in the past 24 hours, the NICD said on Friday

A 5km water pipe will be installed to ensure Hammanskraal residents receive clean drinking water, water and sanitation minister Senzo Mchunu promised on Friday.

Load-shedding will come to an end at 8pm, Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter said on Friday afternoon.

A peacock has been rescued by a private security firm, after two men allegedly tried to sell the bird in Verulam, north of Durban, for R300.

Christian commentator Solomon Izang Ashoms is serving a 20-day prison sentence after failing several times to comply with an order directing him to refrain from making defamatory remarks about Alleluia Ministries pastor Alph Lukau.

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is on course to serve a second five-year term at the helm of the World Health Organization after being the only candidate nominated by 28 countries, Western diplomats said on Friday.