A new Government of National Unity (GNU) has been in place since June 2024, which the markets have welcomed. The GNU faces difficult challenges: declining GDP per capita, high unemployment, poverty ...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with South Africa.

Patients and health care advocates said the abrupt decision to halt U.S. funding for a lifesaving H.I.V. program led to ...

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi stresses the importance of continuing ARV treatment for South Africans living with HIV/Aids, ...

Mpox vaccines are finally trickling into Africa after having been available in non-endemic, high-income countries for more ...

Just eight days into his presidency, US President Donald Trump has signed numerous executive orders that are having ...

January 17, 2025 • In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close to 80 found dead in grim recovery operation.

South Africa mine rescue ends, anger rises over 78 deaths in police siege Africacategory· January 16, 2025 South Africa's statistics agency has updated its consumer inflation basket for the first ...

After independence, internal divisions between the wealthier north and less-developed south triggered decades of violent conflict, including two civil wars. The second Sudanese civil war ...

The amendments to the text of the Constitution were inserted in the original text by staff of the Government Communication and Information System (GCIS), as Parliament does not publish updated ...

A girl holds a portrait of U.S. President Jimmy Carter in a market in Lagos, Nigeria, March 31, 1978, the day of his arrival for a state visit, the first to Africa by an American president. (AP ...

But she stopped short of saying BRICS (consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates) can fill the void.