REGIONAL NEWS

Passengers aboard a South African Airways (SAA) flight, en route from Johannesburg to Hong Kong, were rudely awoken by a mid-air ‘robbery’.

South African Revenue Service (SARS) officials have arrested a South African student who allegedly had US dollars to the value of almost R10m in her hand luggage when she boarded a flight at OR Tambo International Airport.

A few years after the Berlin Wall fell graffiti appeared on a building in the former East Berlin. It read: “The wall is gone, but who will break down the walls in our hearts and minds?”

SheTrades initiative launched in Zambia on Monday in an effort by the International Trade Centre to promote the work of female entrepreneurs. The Zambian chapter also positively challenges cultural norms for African women, say organisers.

A widely reported story that 90 elephants have been slaughtered in Botswana recently has been denounced as fake by the authorities.

The rand extended losses on Thursday ahead of the release of current account data that could add to South Africa’s woes after its economy slipped into recession for the first time in nearly a decade.

Malusi Gigaba, the South African Minister of Home Affairs, has been ordered to appear before the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs next week.

The Democratic Republic of Congo's highest court on Monday ended former warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba's bid to stand in this year's presidential election, upholding an earlier ban imposed on him for bribing witnesses.

A consortium of four South Korean companies has been selected for the feasibility study for the construction and operation of a gas-fired combined-cycle power plant in Angola’s Benguela province, local media reported Saturday.

Herman Pretorius is just the kind of white South African farmer US President Donald Trump expressed concern for when he barged into the country's delicate land reform debate by ordering an investigation into the "large-scale killing of farmers".

Since the appearance of the new outbreak, last Wednesday, August 1, there have been more than 111 cases between the two Congolese provinces where Ebola was found.

Botswana must step up efforts to recognize and protect the rights of minorities in relation to public services, land and resource use and the use of minority languages in education and other critical areas, says the Special Rapporteur on Minorities, Fernand de Varennes.