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When plans for the South African government's tourism board to sponsor English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur were leaked and then confirmed last week, they caused widespread public anger.

US Africa Command has said it killed 12 al-Shabaab fighters in a remote area of Somalia on Friday in support of that country's federal government and army.

A head-on collision between a bus and a cash-in-transit van left 20 people dead on Monday on a major road in South Africa's northern Limpopo province, with dozens taken to hospital, transport officials and emergency medical company said.

Russia's Admiral Gorshkov frigate, armed with Zircon hypersonic missiles has docked in Cape Town, South Africa ahead of joint military drills with South Africa, Russia and China, Cape town's Russian Consulate said on Monday.

A least nine people have been died from the first-ever Marburg outbreak in Equatorial Guinea, prompting WHO officials to meet to discuss progress on vaccine and treatment candidates.

Experts are sounding alarm bells after a virus outbreak in Africa.

A US strike in Somalia killed five al-Shabaab fighters on Wednesday, US Africa Command said in a statement. The strike was carried out at the request of the Somali government and was a "collective self-defense strike," according to AFRICOM.

Tropical Cyclone Freddy formed off the southern coast of Indonesia in early February and strengthened into a significant storm.

In the Mediterranean, it's called "Sirocco," and in the Canary Islands, "La Calima," while it goes by "Harmattan" in West Africa, and "Haboob" in Sudan. But these varied names all describe the same thing: dust storms.

Microsoft has expanded the Xbox Game Pass family plan to six more countries. Folks in Chile, Hungary, Israel, New Zealand, South Africa and Sweden can now sign up for a membership that allows up to five friends and family members in the same country...

Major UK supermarkets have started rationing the sale of some staple fruits and salad vegetables, blaming poor weather that has depressed production in Spain and north Africa.

Microsoft has expanded the Xbox Game Pass family plan to six more countries. Folks in Chile, Hungary, Israel, New Zealand, South Africa and Sweden can now sign up for a membership that allows up to five friends and family members in the same country...

Microsoft has expanded the Xbox Game Pass family plan to six more countries. Folks in Chile, Hungary, Israel, New Zealand, South Africa and Sweden can now sign up for a membership that allows up to five friends and family members in the same country...

Microsoft has expanded the Xbox Game Pass family plan to six more countries. Folks in Chile, Hungary, Israel, New Zealand, South Africa and Sweden can now sign up for a membership that allows up to five friends and family members in the same country...

Archaeologists digging in a cave in southern France say they have unearthed the earliest evidence of bow and arrow use outside Africa.

A new form of real estate is popping up along the beaches of South Africa and on the dry, barren islands off its coast -- tiny white beach huts. With good ventilation and a sea view, they are just big enough to fit a family of African penguins. Their...

Microsoft has expanded the Xbox Game Pass family plan to six more countries. Folks in Chile, Hungary, Israel, New Zealand, South Africa and Sweden can now sign up for a membership that allows up to five friends and family members in the same country...

Australia won the Women's T20 World Cup in brilliant fashion, defeating home side South Africa by 19 runs in front of a sold out Newlands Cricket Ground in Cape Town on Saturday

Two orcas dubbed "Port" and "Starboard" have been credited with killing and disemboweling 20 sharks near Cape Town, South Africa.