South Africa's Eskom will cut 3,000 megawatts of power in controlled outages, known locally as loadshedding, from 5:30 p.m.

After making billions in cement, Nigerian Aliko Dangote is tackling oil and corruption in his quest to become Africa’s ...

Nowhere is the trend towards resource nationalism more advanced than in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, the heart of Africa’s ...

An Indian drug maker tells a BBC undercover team its addictive cocktail drug is “very harmful” but “this is business”.

The freeze on U.S. foreign aid ordered by President Donald Trump has effectively halted one of the world's most successful ...

India’s Opioid Kings, a new documentary from the BBC World Service’s award-winning BBC Eye Investigations team, has revealed ...

In mid-February 2025, posts on social media sites like Facebook (archived here) alleged that the nation of South Africa had ...

A man hailed as the world’s first imam to say he was gay was shot dead in South Africa on Saturday, local police said, in ...

The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference has called for “racial reconciliation” in response to ongoing tension ...

The reason for the abrupt cancellation was the failure of the minister to get cabinet approval for the proposal to raise ...

South Africa's biggest mobile operator Vodacom aims to accelerate group core profit growth into a double-digit rise from 7.8% ...

The Treasury secretary is the second top U.S. official not to attend the Group of 20 gatherings because of rising tension ...