Investors are demanding a lofty premium to hold Ghana’s local-currency bonds as they await details of how the International Monetary Fund might support an economy buffeted by a plunging currency and rampant inflation.

The department of justice and correctional services has clarified a TikTok video incorrectly interpreting the new draft Unlawful Entry of Premises Bill.

Provisional results on Thursday from ballot counting in Angola's election indicate the ruling party MPLA, in power for nearly five decades, holds a strong lead over the main opposition UNITA, which said the initial outcome was not reliable.

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The US has sent its response to the European Union’s latest proposal to revive the multinational accord that limited Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of related sanctions, the latest sign that an agreement may be within reach.

A farmer in India's northern Punjab state shifted his entire house about 120m away from its former location as it came in the way of a highway being built to connect the country's capital to Kashmir.

KwaZulu-Natal pupils should wear their traditional attire to school on Tuesday to celebrate new Zulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini Zulu, says the education department.

The death of a young woman in police custody last week in Mexico's southern state of Oaxaca is being investigated and has led to multiple arrests, state prosecutors said in a statement late Wednesday.

A Russian missile attack killed 22 civilians and set a passenger train on fire in eastern Ukraine, officials in Kyiv said, with missile strikes north of the capital as Ukraine marked its Independence Day under heavy shelling.

Japan's National Police Agency chief said on Thursday he wanted to resign to take responsibility for the shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in July.

Pakistan’s military-backed establishment faces a dilemma: The more they seek to boot Imran Khan out of politics, the greater the risk he becomes even more popular.

The murder of land activist Lindokuhle Mnguni at the weekend is a violation of international law which SA is bound to promote and protect in all communities, say the Human Rights Institute of SA and SA Human Rights Forum.

Pinterest Inc. is facing an investigation by the California Civil Rights Department, the company confirmed, after a number of employees brought forward discrimination claims in recent years.

Limpopo is one of the provinces affected by patients from outside the country coming here for treatment, the health department acknowledges, while reminding healthworkers that all patients should be treated with dignity.

A series of violent crimes against women in Egypt has drawn attention to gaps in legal and social protections that leave female citizens vulnerable to attacks and harassment, victims and activists say.

The husband of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was sentenced to five days in jail and ordered to pay $6,800 in fines and restitution on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to causing injury by drunken driving in Napa County, California.

Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, has revealed that her son’s Zimbabwean nanny saved him from a nursery fire during her and Prince Harry’s royal tour of Southern Africa in 2019.

Protesting workers have given the government 14 working days to address their demands around the economic and energy crises plaguing South Africans.

Court delivers a devastating judgment slamming the police investigation’s failure to identify ‘unknown white males’, among other mishaps

Daughter is furious and says her mother would be alive if the suspect hadn’t been let off after stealing a laptop

Participants in a major study felt their experiences were ‘personally meaningful and spiritually significant’

Analysts expect Apple to introduce a new generation iPhone 14 model.

The lease of the hotel outside Pretoria has been found to have transgressed the Public Finance Management Act’s regulations

The power utility say it is considering choking electricity supply in the city after the metro paid a tiny portion of its bill

Police and metro police officers were attending to a protest in Umgeni Road in Durban on Wednesday evening.

Botswana has suspended all exports of cattle and related meat products while authorities investigate a suspected outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.

On the frontlines of Ukrainian resistance to Russia's invading forces and in shattered cities, combatants and civilians marked Ukraine's independence day with defiant words and the promise of victory.

A further 10 people appeared in the Durban magistrate’s court on Wednesday on charges of conspiracy to commit public violence, incitement to commit public violence and incitement to commit arson.

A Limpopo serial rapist was on Wednesday sentenced to eight life terms and 100 years’ imprisonment.

As law-enforcement officers struggle to halt the rampant theft of precious metal and copper, often stolen from infrastructure, police have recorded some successes.