The acting Minister of Education and Sports Dr. Chrysestom Muyingo has called for greater investment in education, skills, research, innovation and entrepreneurship, saying Uganda's youthful ...

Makerere University has ordered senior lecturer Dr Faisal Buyinza to step aside from his leadership and administrative duties as it investigates allegations of sexual harassment, abuse of power and ...

The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) has withdrawn a directive on the intake of asylum applications following violent anti-immigration protests in Durban and Soweto, as the government seeks to find a ...

Zimbabwe's wealthy Wicknell Chivayo recently died in a helicopter crash. Earlier this year, photographs of him with President Cyril Ramaphosa sparked controversy because Chivayo was reportedly the ...

Guinea-Bissau's Prime Minister, Ilídio Vieira Té, on Thursday said the conditions necessary to organise presidential and legislative elections scheduled for December 6 had not been met, raising the ...

Lighthouse Capital, an operator-led private equity firm, is actively raising a US$50 million private equity fund. This new fund is specifically designed to target high-growth mid-market businesses ...

The Presidency on Thursday declared that the Bola Tinubu-led administration has no intention of going back to the fuel subsidy reform jettisoned over three years ago. Rather, it announced the introduc ...

Four Killed in Germiston Shack Fire. Four people, including three children aged two, five and seven, have died in a fire that destroyed 12 shacks at the Marathon informal settleme ...

Callixte Mbarushimana, a former United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) employee and senior figure in the FDLR, died in France at the age of 63.

Brothers Siyanda and Akhona Sopangisa harvest invasive water hyacinth from the Blowy wetland in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, to make into biochar for gardens. They sell the biochar at a market and from ...

Renewed fighting in Ethiopia's Tigray region and escalating tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea could further destabilise the Horn of Africa and threaten shipping through the strait. African ...

TANZANIA has called for stronger regional cooperation to protect the Western Indian Ocean and its resources, valued at more than 300 billion US dollars (about 790.1tril/-), as countries marked four ...