Southern Africa

The speaker of South Africa's parliament is in police grips amid an ongoing corruption investigation against her.67-year old Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula handed herself over to...

The Catholic church in Malawi has accused the country's President Lazarus Chakwera, of bad leadership. According to the church Malawi hasn't made the needed progress...

Namibia's former and late president Hage Geingob, who died on February 4, has been buried at the Heroes Acre on Sunday. He died in the...

South Africa's national and provincial elections are now planned for May 29.Voters will be electing a new National Assembly as well as the provincial...

Nangolo Mbumba has been sworn in as Namibia's interim president after Hage Geingob died in office.Mbumba took over on Sunday hours after Geingob's death...

The president of Namibia Hage Geingob has died at the age of 82, the presidency said on Sunday. He died in hospital early on Sunday,...

A man who claimed responsibility for starting a fire that killed 76 people last year in South Africa has been arrested by the Police. The suspect...

Over 400 people have died from the worst cholera outbreak in the Zambia since the 1970s. More than 10,000 people have been infected with authorities...

The UN's International Court of Justice begins hearing a case brought by South Africa against Israel on Thursday.South Africa last month filed the case...

South African Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius has been released from jail nearly 11 years after killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.He walked free on Friday after...