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Electricity lights up the central business district of Cape Town, South Africa, June 18, 2019. Photo: REUTERS/Mike Hutchings/File Photo
Africa

Politics home and after haven't deterred investors from South Africa

Africa's most industrialized nation depends on foreign investor support to manage its debt load and to keep borrowing costs in check as it faces persistent structural challenges, including...

Death toll from a boat capsizing in Congo earlier this week rises to 148: officials
Africa

Death toll from a boat capsizing in Congo earlier this week rises to 148: officials

Najlaa Ahmed, a displaced Sudanese mother, looks on, following Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacks on Zamzam displacement camp, as she shelters in the town of Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan April 16, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Stringer
Africa

Survivors describe executions, arson in attack on Sudan's Zamzam camp

Emergency workers in attendance at the scene of a collision between two passenger trains near Pretoria, South Africa, January 31, 2013. Photo: Via AFP/UNB
Africa

Injuries as South African luxury train smashes into another

Algerian and French flags flutter ahead of the arrival of French President Emmanuel Macron, in Algiers, Algeria August 25, 2022. Photo: REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina/File Photo
Africa

Algeria asks 12 French officials to leave in 48 hours

Members of the M23 rebel group stand guard as people attend a rally addressed by Corneille Nangaa, Congolese rebel leader and coordinator of the AFC-M23 movement, in Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo February 27, 2025. Photo: REUTERS//File Photo
Africa

Congo, M23 rebels hold first talks after months of conflict

Factory workers walk home after work outside the capital Maseru in Lesotho, October 6, 2022. Photo: REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo
Africa

Trump's highest tariff will kill tiny African kingdom of Lesotho: economist

Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan gestures to soldiers inside the presidential palace after the Sudanese army said it had taken control of the building, in the capital Khartoum, Sudan March 26, 2025. Photo: Sudan Transitional Sovereignty Council/Handout via REUTERS
Africa

Sudanese army drives RSF from central Khartoum: witnesses

Members of the M23 rebel group stand guard as people attend a rally addressed by Corneille Nangaa, Congolese rebel leader and coordinator of the AFC-M23 movement, in Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo February 27, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Victoire Mukenge/File Photo
Africa

Congo M23 rebels say they will withdraw from seized town to support peace push

Sudanese army members film themselves inside the presidential palace, after, according to the Sudanese army, they took the control of the presidential palace, in Khartoum, Sudan, March 21, 2025, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video. Social Media via REUTERS
Africa

Sudanese army says it has control of presidential palace in Khartoum

M23 rebels sit on a truck during the escort of captured FDLR members (not pictured) to Rwanda for repatriation, at the Goma-Gisenyi Grande Barrier border crossing, March 1, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi/File Photo
Africa

Congo says it will join peace talks with Rwanda-backed rebels on Tuesday

South Sudan's Vice President Riek Machar addresses a news conference, as the first case of coronavirus was confirmed in the country, in Juba, South Sudan April 5, 2020. Photo: REUTERS/Samir Bol/File Photo
Africa

South Sudan situation deteriorating at alarming pace: UN rights body

US President Donald Trump looks on in the Oval Office, on the day he signs executive orders, at the White House in Washington, DC, US March 6, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Africa

South Africa rejects 'megaphone diplomacy' as Trump backs funding cut