South Africa, Africa

To most Westerners, a fatwa, or Islamic ruling, evokes the imposition of a death sentence on author Salman Rushdie and the wearing of head-to-toe...

Industrialised countries can earn greenhouse gas emission reduction credits by investing in projects that lower emission levels in developing...

A unique safety net programme being piloted in Ethiopia, which attempts to break away from the traditional humanitarian model, is being punted in...

South Africa's Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has called on the mining industry to address safety concerns after 240,000 mine workers downed tools...

An innovative outreach programme that uses local schools as the point of entry into South Africa's poorest communities is helping tens of thousands...

Suhail AbualSameed looked calm, yet he was shaking inside. He was seated before a row of ulama, distinguished Islamic scholars, from Afghanistan to...

A unique new benchmarking mechanism that looks at the performance of humanitarian aid donors has put Sweden in the lead. Developed by DARA...

Five tourists including a child, have been killed in a car accident in Kruger National Park in South Africa. Four of the tourists were from Austria...

The 20th annual World AIDS Day was December 1, 2007. The theme selected by the World AIDS Campaign is "Stop AIDS: Keep the Promise" as it will be...

A voucher system to access agricultural inputs could put farmers in disaster-hit Mozambique, Swaziland and Lesotho on the road to recovery, according...