Southern Africa

BLANTYRE (Reuters) - Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera has changed the southern African country's finance minister in a reshuffled cabinet, a...

BLANTYRE (Reuters) - Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera has appointed several new ministers in a rejigged cabinet, a statement from his...

DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates will lift an entry and transit ban on on Saturday on travellers who...

MAPUTO (Reuters) - The death toll from tropical storm Ana has risen to at least 12 in Mozambique and Malawi,...

MAPUTO (Reuters) -Tropical storm Ana has killed at least three people in Mozambique and Malawi after making landfall on Monday...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African investigators have flagged COVID-19 contracts worth around 2.1 billion rand ($137.12 million) for possible corruption...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Developing countries are paying more to service their debt than at any other time in the past...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Southern African countries agreed at a summit on Wednesday to extend their troop deployment in Mozambique to...

GABORONE (Reuters) -Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi has left isolation just over a week after testing positive for COVID-19 without symptoms,...

HARARE (Reuters) - A freelance reporter working for the New York Times in Zimbabwe will appear in court on Wednesday,...

By Alexander Winning JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African corruption inquiry pointed to systemic graft during former President Jacob Zuma's...

By Sisipho Skweyiya CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africans cheered the government's decision to lift its midnight curfew after nearly...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia has lifted a travel ban on eight southern African countries that had been among the...

ABUJA (Reuters) - The Nigerian president's top media aide Garba Shehu said on Saturday that he has tested positive for...

By David Shepardson (Reuters) -The Biden administration will lift travel restrictions on eight southern African countries imposed last month over...

ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) -The death toll from the sinking of a cargo ship off the coast of northeastern Madagascar rose to...

By Emma Rumney and Estelle Shirbon JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - COVID-19 cases appear to have peaked in South Africa's Gauteng province...

By Francesco Guarascio (Reuters) - Brussels is pushing to lift an "inefficient" travel ban on southern African states over the...

ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - A boat accident off the coast of northeastern Madagascar killed at least 19 people, and searches were...

By Alexander Winning JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa's health minister said on Friday that the government believed that vaccines and high...