Funding activity in the Middle East and North Africa region this week was led by early-stage deals, with startups from ...

South Africa’s very first Pay-Per-Use PET-CT scanner has launched and it promises advanced, cost-effective cancer imaging.

More than 30 countries grant unrestricted birthright citizenship based on the ‘jus soli’ principle – and nearly all of them ...

Kenyan President William Ruto, who chairs the East African Community, announced that he had convened an Extraordinary Summit mid-week to discuss the security crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic ...

For centuries, we have been taught that there are seven continents, but new research has suggested there are actually only ...

James Kabarebe, has criticised South Africa’s former intelligence chief, Lt. Gen (Rtd) Maomela Motau, for distorting the facts of a decades-long crisis in the eastern part of DR Congo. Kabarebe ...

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the \"global south\" on the ...

The weather service has issued a yellow level 2 warning for severe thunderstorms leading to damaging winds, hail, localised ...

On Sunday, Bruno Lemarquis, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator in the Democratic Republic of Congo, warned that “the ...

When M23 rebels swept into the Congolese city of Goma this week, world powers urged them to immediately withdraw. Instead, ...

The President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief is in danger of shuttering. The decision could kill hundreds of thousands of people and kickstart an epidemic.

The scene is the result of the invasion of Goma on January 27th by M23, an armed group under the control of Rwanda, Congo’s neighbour, which abuts the city. Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s president, has ...