The 3rd Africa/European Union (EU) Summit opened in Tripoli on monday with President Paul Biya and wife, Chantal Biya in attendance. Some 30 African Heads of State and Government as well as European Union leaders and top officials from the 80 countries...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa could cut the number of new HIV infections to below 200,000 a year by 2020, more than half the current level, with the right policies, but reaching the goal will be costly, a report on Friday said

The Eastern Cape health department is taking action regarding a rape complaint lodged against an ambulance driver in February this year. Spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo said on Thursday the complainant, a woman, reported the alleged attack to the...

Police opened fire on demonstrators protesting against rising prices in Mozambique’s capital on Wednesday, killing at least six people including two children, police and hospital sources said. The violence was the worst in the poor southern...

Rwandan and Congolese rebels gang-raped nearly 200 women and some baby boys over four days within miles of a U.N. peacekeepers’ base in an eastern Congo mining district, an American aid worker and a Congolese doctor said Monday. Will F. Cragin of...

IN A scathing rebuke of Botswana’s immigration laws, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights has found that national security is not a legitimate justification for infringing on the right of access to courts. The landmark...

A 75-year-old woman attacked a 17-year-old youth with an axe after he allegedly raped her in Dutywa, Eastern Cape police said on Thursday.

Police say a “controlled explosion” at an explosives factory was the source of a blast heard by journalists Sunday at the World Cup’s main media center. South African Police Services spokesman Col. Eugene Opperman said the explosion...

Police say two Ugandan children died in a fire while their parents watched a World Cup match on television nearby. Police in Uganda have warned parents against leaving children alone in houses following the death of an 8- and 10-year-old in the Kayunga...

South African police say they are hunting for the killer of a flamboyant strip club owner. Police spokesman Lt. Col. Eugene Opperman said Tuesday that officers found Emmanuel “Lolly” Jackson’s body, shot several times, in a house near...