When Covid-19 was declared a global pandemic in March 2020, the international community had dire predictions for Africa: the region's underfunded and poorly equipped health facilities would crumble and millions of people could die.

An Israeli air strike killed four Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday, the territory's civil emergency service said, as Arab mediators and the United States tried to hammer out differences between Hamas and Israel over a January 19 ceasefire agreement.

The plane carrying Rodrigo Duterte to the International Criminal Court in The Hague was delayed, tracking service Flightradar 24 showed on Wednesday, after the former Philippines leader was arrested in Manila.

Above-average rains mixed with long sunny spells last week across most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa growing regions are expected to improve growing conditions and strengthen the development of the April-to-September mid-crop, farmers said on Monday.

Ghana's finance minister Cassiel Ato Forson said on Tuesday the gold-producing West African nation will increase a levy on gross production of mining companies to 3% from 1%.

At least 19 children sustained minor injuries on Wednesday when a 65-seater bus crashed into the back of a truck trailer at the intersection of Dekema and Blackreef roads in Wadeville, Ekurhuleni.

The three people suspected of being responsible for the disappearance of Joshlin Smith are back in the high court in Saldanha Bay, Western Cape, on Wednesday.

The basic education department has replaced 93% of identified pit toilets at public schools, says minister Siviwe Gwarube.

Tiger Woods underwent surgery on Tuesday to repair a ruptured left Achilles tendon.

With the budget speech set to take place on Wednesday, Santaco secretary-general Daki Qumbu believes the taxi industry deserves a subsidy.

US law firm Perkins Coie has sued President Donald Trump’s administration in federal court, claiming Trump illegally retaliated against the firm over its work for his former opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton, and its internal policies promoting di...

The US department of agriculture will comply with the Wednesday deadline issued by a federal board to temporarily reinstate its fired probationary employees, according to an agency statement.

British police arrested the captain of a cargo ship on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter on Tuesday, a day after the vessel crashed into a tanker carrying US military jet fuel off the east coast of England, leaving the two vessels badly dama...

French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed on Tuesday a 30-day ceasefire proposal that Ukraine has agreed to and said it was now up to Russia to end the fighting.

A Ukrainian presidential official said on Tuesday the US has resumed military assistance to Ukraine following talks in Saudi Arabia.

A commissioner found while embassies may invoke general immunity from SA courts, this was not the case involving employment contracts for locals

Families of three victims shot dead during a crime-fighting meeting are left reeling and say they will never get justice for their deaths

The Asset Forfeiture Unit of the National Prosecuting Authority has attached property belonging to Darren Wilken and his girlfriend Tiona Megan Moodley, who are accused of child pornography.

KwaZulu Natal police have reached out to the provincial business community in a bid to boost crime-fighting efforts to offset severe budget cuts.

The Northern Cape High Court on Tuesday sentenced seven people accused of the brutal murder of well-known Kimberley businessman Piet Els to lengthy jail terms.

Griffcats early learning centre in Benoni has described Kgosi Malatji, who died on the N12 near the Putfontein Road off-ramp in Daveyton, Ekurhuleni after a collision on Tuesday, as a sweet and happy boy.

Pam Golding Properties says there was a security compromise in its system that may have resulted in unauthorised access to some of its customers' personal information stored on its system.

Eight years before allegedly "selling" her as yet unborn daughter Joshlin, Racquel “Kelly” Smith had allegedly been abusing drugs and neglecting her son, the department of social development was told.

The death toll from the bus crash has risen to 16, as four more people died in hospital

The Girl Scouts are being sued by US consumers over the alleged presence of “heavy metals” and pesticides in its popular Thin Mints and other cookies.

Issues with suppliers and heavy rains to blame for empty shelves at some outlets.

The anti-apartheid activist and medical doctor was buried on Tuesday in Ga-Rankuwa.

Absa, one of South Africa's big four banks, has flagged a better metrics in 2025 as it bets on improved economic prospects for the year ahead.

Two trafficked lions, Yoda and Ysis, have been successfully repatriated to South Africa after years of rehabilitation in France.

Officials from the party of Democratic Republic of Congo's former president Joseph Kabila appeared before a military prosecutor on Monday in a sign of political tensions over advances by Rwanda-backed rebels in the east.