In a staggering display of cruelty, South African police laid siege to an illegal gold mine near Johannesburg, leaving at ...

Mohammad Rizwan and Salman Agha's sensational 260-run stand off just 229 balls for the third wicket helped Pakistan finish a ...

A law that allows the government to confiscate land has reignited racial tensions that have dogged Africa's southernmost tip ...

(AP Photo/Richard Eshun Nanaresh, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — West Africa’s regional bloc known as ECOWAS is facing significant ...

Once Sachin Tendulkar was out, Sourav Ganguly stamped his authority, reconfirming his standing as one of the greatest 50-overs openers of all time.

In South Africa, the interest rates decisions are taken by the South African Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). The official interest rate is the repo rate. This is the rate at ...

Widely seen as West Africa’s top political and regional authority, the 15-nation ECOWAS was formed in 1975 to “promote economic integration” in member states. It has struggled in recent years to ...

They didn’t serve in Europe but in the fringe battles in Africa, where Allied forces fought in the then-German colonies of German South West Africa (now Namibia) and German East Africa (now Tanzania, ...

Independent Online, popularly known as IOL, is one of South Africa’s leading news and information websites bringing millions of readers breaking news and updates on Politics, Current Affairs ...

Chatham House convening and research focuses on social norms and anti-corruption programming in Nigeria; cross-border conflict and smuggling across West Africa as part of the XCEPT research programme; ...

In a Cape Town memorial opened Wednesday, African "iroko" hardwood posts bear the names and the date of death of 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combatant roles in WWI.