1.02 billion people have gone hungry this year, according to a report released this year. This comes at a time when several regions in East Africa are threatened by famine due to drought. Rwanda, for its part, looks at the moment to be holding its own.

Carrier pigeons are being used to transfer data between offices because bosses believe it is quicker than broadband. Computer experts at a South African firm said it took six hours to transfer four gigabytes of encrypted data from Durban to a call...

This country’s rituals of protest most often call for the burning of tires, the barricading of streets and the throwing of rocks. So when the municipal mayor here went to address the crowd after three days of such agitation, the police thought it best...

South Africa’s defence minister could dismiss more than 1,000 soldiers who went on the rampage in the capital Pretoria on Wednesday, officials say. The troops left their barracks and marched to the Union Buildings, insisting on seeing President...

Gay men and lesbians in Zimbabwe are hoping for an end to years of “hysterical homophobia” by having their rights enshrined in the new constitution. Sexual acts between men are outlawed in the socially conservative country (there is no...

When Fatima Hassam returned to South Africa after a visit to Mecca, her husband, Ebrahim, met her at the airport and said he had something important to announce. To further prepare her, he added cryptically, “It’s not such a nice thing.”

A bank in South Africa has fitted pepper sprays at 11 of its high-risk cash machines to deter thieves and fraudsters. Attacks on ATMs are a growing problem in the country, with gangsters often blowing them up or removing them with diggers to get at the...

PROSTITUTION, sex tourism, trafficking in women and other such practices reduce women to sexual commodities and have a devastating impact on women in developing countries, and oppressed groups in developed countries. Decriminalisation causes an increase...

than 50 million African workers are to be invited to Europe in a far-reaching secretive migration deal, the Daily Express can reveal today. 

Thirteen students from the North West University have been identified as being involved in the racist group on the popular social network website, Facebook.The group, called