Basic education minister Siviwe Gwarube says her department will ensure no boy child is left behind as boys continue to face educational, emotional, and social challenges.

The US is awaiting final feedback due this weekend from Rwanda and DRC on the draft agreement, Massad Boulos told Reuters in an interview in Washington DC.

A Malian court hearing scheduled for Thursday on whether to put Barrick Mining's Loulo-Gounkoto mining complex under provisional administration has been postponed to May 22, the president of the court said on Thursday.

Marlene Dumas' provocative 2.74m-tall oil painting 'Miss January' sold for a staggering $13.635m (R246.7m) on Wednesday, setting a new world record for a living female artist.

The International Monetary Fund has cut its 2025 growth forecast for Angola to 2.4%, mainly due to concerns about the impact of lower crude oil prices on the government's finances and higher interest rates in global markets.

Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Benin will get access to millions of euros in potential investments from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

"Let’s remain resilient as this seed of creativity manifests itself to the world."

A parolee who served time for rape has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping and raping a nine-year-old girl in Hanover Park, Cape Town.

The Office of the Chief Justice said on Friday its officials are suspects in an investigation by the Hawks into fraudulent and corrupt activities in the court.

The US singer allegedly attacked a music producer with a bottle at a nightclub in central London.

Thirty-five people were killed and six wounded in an intercommunal clash in Chad's southwest province of Logone Occidental, a government spokesperson said on Thursday.

Forecasters say freezing levels are expected to drop considerably, creating conditions favourable for some snowfall over high-lying areas and a general drop in temperatures next week.

“Our pupils were doing well even without a lab. Now, with proper facilities, they can perform practicals like learners in other schools. They won’t see equipment for the first time at university.”

A Zimbabwean national who accosted a woman while she was jogging on Kloof Street in Pretoria West has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

US envoys in Africa will be rated on commercial deals struck, not aid spent, a senior state department official says, touting it as the new strategy for US support on the continent.

Indonesia's navy seized a ship carrying nearly two tonnes of methamphetamine and cocaine worth almost $426m (R7.69bn) off Sumatra this week and arrested a Thai national and four Myanmar nationals aboard the vessel, the navy said on Friday.

US President Donald Trump on Friday backed aid for Palestinians, saying people in Gaza are starving and adding he expected "a lot of good things" in the next month.

The Kremlin said on Friday a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump was essential, but required considerable advance preparation and had to yield results when it happened.

The EU is working on a new package of sanctions to increase pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday as leaders from across Europe met in Tirana, Albania.

Malian armed forces arrested and killed around two dozen Fulani civilians who were rounded up at a livestock market in a central region of the West African country, a local activist told Reuters.

Onazo Daniso balanced life as a medical student by day and a part-time nurse by night.

Microsoft has offered to sell its Office product without Teams at a lower price than Office with Teams and offer rivals better interoperability access to its services and products, EU antitrust regulators said on Friday.

At 26 years old, Dr Shavani Naicker was the youngest doctoral graduate at the University of KwaZulu-Natal during its 2025 autumn graduation ceremonies.

With World Hypertension Day taking place on Saturday, vascular surgeon Dr Vinesh Padayachy offers simple strategies that could save your life

Food rations that could supply 3.5-million people for a month are mouldering in warehouses around the world because of US aid cuts and risk becoming unusable, according to five people familiar with the situation.

Nigeria's Trans-Niger Pipeline, a major oil artery transporting crude from onshore oilfields to the Bonny export terminal, burst and spilled oil into the local B-Dere community in Ogoniland, an environmental rights group said on Thursday.

Indonesia's military has killed 18 Papuan separatists during an operation in its easternmost region of Papua, an official said on Thursday, and three civilians also died.

The Woodlands community in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, is demanding a full investigation after a 17-year-old boy was allegedly tricked into drinking acid at a local butchery in what is believed to have been a prank gone horribly wrong.

Swedish police have found nothing to indicate the gunman in the country's deadliest mass shooting, at an adult school in February, had racist or radical views, investigators said on Friday.

Pope Leo XIV, in his first address to world diplomats at the Vatican, said on Friday the dignity of migrants had to be respected, while also calling on nations to halt the production of weapons and prioritise peace efforts.