World

7 years ago | November 18, 2016

Nyusi reopens Cuamba-Lichinga railway

President Filipe Nyusi declared on 3 November that the railway from Cuamba to Lichinga, the two main urban centres in ...

Government, Renamo deliver counter-proposals

The fifth round of talks between the Mozambican government and the opposition party Renamo, intended to end Renamo’s ...

Obama on last ever foreign trip as US President

President Barack Obama, speaking in the birthplace of democracy, has talked of the importance of respecting the choice ...

South Africa racist coffin victim ‘scared for his life’

A black South African man who was allegedly forced into a coffin by two white farmers for trespassing says he was scared ...

SA’s opposition files complaint against Zuma over corruption

South Africa’s main opposition party filed a criminal complaint on Tuesday accusing President Jacob Zuma of corruption ...

7 years ago | November 11, 2016

Why Hillary Clinton lost the election

HOW Hillary Clinton managed to lose an election to a candidate as divisive and unpopular as Donald Trump will baffle ...

TB Joshua deletes prophecy of Clinton win

A PREDICTION by influential Nigerian TV evangelist TB Joshua that Hillary Clinton would win the US presidential election ...

This is what Africans really think of the Chines

INCREASING Chinese investment in everything from small food enterprises to massive railway projects across Africa has ...

How grilled meat united South Africa

NQOBANI Mlagisi grew up on a farm in Zimbabwe, where grilling, smoking and curing meats was such a part of everyday life ...

7 years ago | November 4, 2016

Namibia’s ‘home-grown doctors’ start to make a difference

DR Tjamena Murangi is seeing a patient with a large infected wound on her arm, it is swollen and has lost colour. “Sorry ...

‘There will be terrorist attacks in Britain’

MI5 has its roots in the run-up to the first world war. In 1909, the targets were suspected agents working for German ...

7 years ago | October 28, 2016

Is this the end for ICC?

The ICC eventually dropped charges against Kenya’s president over post-election violence.

Samora was murdered: Mozambique PM

MAPUTO. — Mozambican Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosario on Monday declared that the government remains convinced ...

Sex, honour, shame, blackmail in an online world

A BBC investigation has found that thousands of young women in conservative societies across North Africa, the Middle ...

8 years ago | October 21, 2016

Man gets bitten by snake while trying to snap selfie

A man has been bitten by a python after trying to take a selfie with the creature. The ill-advised move came after the ...

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