The Latest Breaking News from Africa

The second Russia-Africa Summit takes place in St Petersburg on 27-28 July. This comes at a time of a major geopolitical shift, which African leaders may see as offering beneficial opportunities.

Once sacked from her day job after playing for South Africa, she’s now leading Banyana Banyana at the Women’s World Cup.

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi has been welcomed in Zimbabwe by people singing songs criticizing the West

In Angola’s Malanje province, the buildings of Camalundu stand abandoned amid open fields. On one of them, the fragmented words “IAN NGOYI” recall a figure little-known in Angola but familiar to South Africans: anti-apartheid leader Lilian Ngoyi.

African migration is often seen through the lens of movements towards Europe. This series takes a different route.

It's a much shorter campaign this year

South Africa is facing rolling electricity blackouts, high unemployment and growing social unrest due to economic woes.

The shocked man discovered the 10cm stowaway arachnid while unpacking at his home in Edinburgh on Sunday.

South Africa has experienced outbreaks of cholera since January. The worst was in May in Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, where nearly 30 people died. Cholera is a bacterial disease which spreads via the faecal-oral route mostly through ingestion of contaminated food and water. It causes severe diarrhoea and dehydration, and…