Africa

South African education and employment NGO says tools to improve literacy rates are available and hold the key to alleviating the burden on the country’s education system. This comes after the basic education department…

…

Escape's Doc Holiday, Dilvin Yasa, answers your travel-related questions.We have a trip to Spain and Portugal planned but we’ve noticed many restaurants don’t start serving evening meals until after 8pm. Is there any way of identifying…

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A senior South African government minister denied Wednesday there was extensive corruption within the ruling African Nations Congress party in relation to the country’s financially-crippled power utility,…

It is near-certain that 2023-2027 will be the warmest five-year period ever recorded, the United Nations warned Wednesday as greenhouse gases and El Nino combine to send temperatures soaring.Global temperatures are soon set to exceed the…

Four words echoed in Candice Warner’s head when her family returned from the Australian cricket team’s ill-fated South Africa tour in 2018: “It’s all my fault.” The setting of the ball-tampering scandal that saw Steve Smith, Cameron…

Behind-the-scenes preparations are underway for a direct Canadian military airlift of civilians trapped in Sudan as the eastern African country's warring sides struggled to abide by a three-day ceasefire brokered by the U.S. and Saudi…

Published By: Nibandh VinodLast Updated: April 25, 2023, 07:00 ISTWorld Malaria Day is observed on April 25th each year to bring attention to the global efforts to control and eliminate the disease. (Representative image: Shutterstock)…

A French special forces soldier is “gravely” ill after being shot helping French government officials to escape from Khartoum, a minister told Parliament on Monday.Britain’s Africa minister Andrew Mitchell told the Commons of the French…

Candice Warner has made many headline-grabbing revelations in recent days, but it is one of her more innocuous statements that has annoyed Aussie cricket legend Mitchell Johnson. Warner has been widely praised for her honest comments…