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May 9, 2019 at 11:39 pm

South Africa’s ruling ANC coasting to win in national vote VIEW

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — The ruling African National Congress was on course to win South Africa's presidential and parliamentary elections by a comfortable margin...

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May 9, 2019 at 3:27 am

South Africa’s ruling ANC holds onto lead in national vote VIEW

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The ruling African National Congress held a comfortable lead in South Africa's presidential and parliamentary election with more than two-thirds of the...

May 7, 2019 at 10:12 pm

South Africa votes with corruption, jobs as big issues VIEW

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africans voted Wednesday in presidential and parliamentary elections, with signs of a relatively low turnout and voters saying they were disillusioned...

May 7, 2019 at 8:56 am

South Africa to vote amid graft scandals, high unemployment

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A quarter-century after the end of apartheid, South Africans go to the polls Wednesday for the sixth national elections since the demise...

May 4, 2019 at 2:00 am

Young voters eager for change in South Africa’s election VIEW

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At 24, Abetse Mashigo was born a year after South Africa's brutal apartheid system was dismantled. Yet she still feels frustrated by...

April 27, 2019 at 8:14 am

South Africa marks Freedom Day, apartheid ended 25 years ago VIEW

KWA-THEMA, South Africa (AP) — Calls for more jobs for South Africa's black majority and respect for the rights of the LGBTI community marked Freedom...

April 7, 2019 at 9:32 am

African billionaire rebuts idea of migration flood in Europe

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The migration of Africans to Europe and North America should be viewed as a positive phenomenon, not a threat, Sudan-born billionaire Mo...

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April 1, 2019 at 1:59 am

Mozambique races to contain 1,000 cholera cases VIEW

BEIRA, Mozambique (AP) — Mozambican and international health workers raced Monday to contain a cholera outbreak in the cyclone-hit city of Beira and surrounding areas,...

A family dig for their son who got buried in the mud when Cyclone Idai struck in Chimanimani about 600 kilometres south east of Harare, Zimbabwe, Tuesday, March, 19, 2019. According to the government, Cyclone Idai has killed more than 100 people in Chipinge and Chimanimani and according to residents the figures could be higher because the hardest hit areas are still inaccessible. Some hundreds are dead, many more are missing, and some thousands at risk from the massive flooding in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe caused by Cyclone Idai.(AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi) XTM104 XTM104

March 19, 2019 at 1:42 am

Cyclone’s huge floods leave hundreds dead in southern Africa WATCH

"This is a major humanitarian emergency that is getting bigger by the hour," said Herve Verhoosel with the World Food Program. Many people were "crammed...

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In this photo taken on Friday, March 15, 2019 and provided by the International Red Cross, people try to salvage what is left of their homes after Tropical Cyclone Idai, in Beira, Mozambique. Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi says that more than 1,000 may have by killed by Cyclone Idai, which many say is the worst in more than 20 years. Speaking to state Radio Mozambique, Nyusi said Monday, March 18 that although the official death count is currently 84, he believes the toll will be more than 1,000. (Denis Onyodi/IFRC via AP) LLT804 LLT804

March 18, 2019 at 2:16 am

Over 1,000 feared dead after cyclone slams into Mozambique WATCH

The Red Cross said 90 percent of Beira, a city of 500,000, was damaged or destroyed. The scale of the damage is "massive and horrifying,"...

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