Africa Politics News

President Hosni Mubarak entered Egypt's bitter soccer row with Algeria on Saturday, vowing in a televised speech that attacks on Egyptians abroad will not be tolerated. Mubarak did not mention Algeria by name in his previously scheduled address to parliament,...

The persecution, which forced about 2,000 migrants to seek refuge in a rugby stadium, began on Tuesday when the migrants' shacks in a farming community in De Doorns were levelled. Local residents say they are tired of competing with Zimbabweans...

A 32-year-old man died when his car overturned on the N1 highway just before the Malibongwe offramp at about 04:45 on Saturday morning, Johannesburg Emergency Services said. Spokesperson Goodwill Shiburi said the Mazda sedan rolled, went off the highway and...

While temperatures will remain low this weekend, forecasters say the rain will abate by Saturday afternoon. Persistent rainfall in parts of the province has caused traffic problems and accidents in recent days. The wet weather was also partially to blame...

The protesters would then split up for marches through various major streets in the city. The marches will converge at Misakawan Junction, at the rear of Government House, in order to force a collapse of the government before the year's...

A US senator has written to Gordon Brown, demanding the immediate return of the Lockerbie bomber to prison. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, said Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi's early release from Greenock jail in Scotland on compassionate grounds was granted...

Louis-based grocery chain now that Kuhn's Market has dropped plans for a Hill District store. The Ravenstahl administration and other stakeholders are planning to meet next week or after Thanksgiving with Save-A-Lot representatives to gauge the grocer's interest in opening...

Twenty-five years after the world was gripped by harrowing scenes of starvation and death in Ethiopia, chronic hunger has returned to the Horn of Africa. Last month the Ethiopian government called for urgent international assistance to help feed 6,2-million people....

Guineans and the international community are watching mediation efforts of Blaise Compaoré, as international investigators begin to probe the 28 September deadly military attack on civilians in the capital Conakry. The latest violence stunned even a nation with a long history...