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International

Foreign-Owned Shops Attacked In South Africa

More than 30 foreign-owned shops were looted last night in two neighbourhoods in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, a...

International

Over 100 Passengers Injured As Train Coaches Collide In South Africa

More than 100 people were reportedly injured on Monday evening in a train accident in the South African city of...

International

Nigeria Condemns Xenophobic Attacks In SA

The African Union should intervene urgently to end xenophobic attacks in South Africa on Nigerians and other Africans,...

Headlines

Zuma Not Backing Hayatou

South Africa sports minister Fikile Mbalula Monday denied a Confederation of African Football statement that President...

Headlines

Nigeria Urges AU To Intervene Over ‘SAfrica Killings’

Nigeria on Monday urged the African Union to step in to stop what it said were "xenophobic attacks" on its citizens and...

Headlines

On A South African Farm, Despair Over Armyworm Attack

Peeling back the maize plant's leaves reveals a small brown caterpillar -- an armyworm that writhes as it burrows into...

International

Why Did My Sister Die In A South African Care Home?

The silent deaths of 94 mentally ill patients in South Africa is symptomatic of their place in society, but their...

Headlines

South Africa Pays Tribute To Joost van der Westhuizen

Team-mates from South Africa's 1995 World Cup winning squad carried the coffin of Joost van der Westhuizen into his...

Headlines

Fans Halt Game As Pirates Suffer 80-Year Low

Play was halted for an hour Saturday in a South African league match after Orlando Pirates supporters invaded the pitch...

International

SA Pastor ‘serves Rat Poison’ To Congregation

the poison is meant to show that death has no power over them. A South African pastor has been offering rat poison to...

Top Stories

SA Pastor ‘serves Rat Poison’ To Congregation

A South African pastor has been offering rat poison to his congregation as a test of their faith, the country’s eNCA...

Africa & World

Top 10 African Countries with Highest White Population as of 2017.

Africa has a long history of harbouring Europeans, Asians and even South Americans. Prior to, and after the era of...

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Ghanaian and Egyptian Pick $100,000 AU Prize For Scientific Excellence

Ghanaian Felix Dapare Dakora is a Plant and Soil Biotechnology Professor at the Tshwane University of Technology in...

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Good Men and Women

Time does fly. 35 years already… Early in 1982, I was called up to serve. The Provisional National Defence Council...

Business

Gov’t To Pursue Economic Diplomacy

The Minister of Foreign Affairs designate, Ms Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, has said that Ghana’s foreign missions will...

Opinion

On ECOMOG Option In The Gambia

Since the political crisis in The Gambia stated last December with President Yahya Jammeh rejecting the result of the...

Opinion

High Time All African States Have Left the Eurocentric ICC

Last October Burundi, South Africa and the Gambia declared they were withdrawing from the International Criminal Court...

Opinion

Neo-Colonialism, Economic Sovereignty and the Imperatives of Socialist Development

Over the last several years along the Indian Ocean coast in East Africa substantial finds of oil and natural gas...

Opinion

The Namibia Experience

Sometime after January 7 2017, my two and a half years tour of duty as Ghana’s High Commissioner to Namibia and...