South Africa, Africa

Despite the dismantling of apartheid in the early 1990s, and significant annual economic growth over the past 10 years, South African cities have the...

African governments are failing to make proper use of local Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, despite their capacity to provide much-needed broad...

Models to predict the impact of climate change on potable water and the management of wastewater are needed to deal with the expected increase in...

A combination of political flux, higher food prices and the failure of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) - after 14 years of power - to...

Archbishop sends ‘Control Arms’ message to every nation Today [Tuesday] Archbishop Desmond Tutu sent a strong message to every UN member state,...

About 200 Somali businessmen in South Africa's Western Cape Province are being threatened with violence if they continue doing business in the...

Computers are increasingly ubiquitous in the developing world as software and internet companies create operating systems, computing programmes, and...

At least three people have been confirmed dead in Johannesburg, South Africa, in an outbreak of what officials believe to be contagious hemorrhagic...

At least six countries in Southern Africa could receive poor rainfall during the critical planting season starting next month, says an early forecast...

After years of calling on the owners of South Africa's oil refineries in Durban to upgrade their facilities to reduce pollution, local residents of...