SOUTH AFRICA

Transgender women will not be allowed to compete in international women’s cricket.

Police in South Africa say a group of gold miners from an unregistered, rival union are holding hundreds of colleagues underground for the second day over a union dispute.

New Zealand and South Africa will contest Saturday’s Rugby World Cup final and bring one of sport’s most intense rivalries to the ultimate stage for the first time in nearly 30 years.

Most of the population in conflict-affected countries like Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad and northern Nigeria depends on climate-vulnerable agriculture.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says his country is “becoming the voice of the Global South."

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has replaced the name India with a Sanskrit word in dinner invitations sent to guests attending this week’s Group of 20 summit, in a move that reflects his Hindu nationalist party’s efforts to eliminate what it sees as colonial-era names.

The United Nations chief is going globetrotting to four major meetings before the biggest meeting of all – the annual gathering of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly starting Sept. 18.

India’s prime minister and China’s leader have agreed to intensify efforts to de-escalate tensions at the disputed border between them and bring home thousands of their troops deployed there.

Across the developing world, many countries are fed up with America’s dominance of the global financial system — and especially the power of the dollar.

Players who reached the knockout round of the Women’s World Cup got larger individual bonuses that can be life-changing to many of them.

Three powerhouse teams play on the second day of the Women’s World Cup knockout stage and at least one of the best will be eliminated.

Fans of the United States women’s soccer team remained faithful viewers no matter what hour the game was on.

Two-time champion Germany was eliminated in a wild finale to the group stage of the Women’s World Cup, while low-ranked Morocco advanced to the knockout stage.

Italy’s players dropped to their knees, buried their faces and tearfully wondered how their tournament had suddenly ended following a shocking upset to South Africa in the Women’s World Cup.

Authorities say one man has been killed and at least 48 people are injured, some of them seriously, after a suspected underground gas explosion ripped open roads and flipped vehicles in the heart of South Africa’s biggest city.

Authorities in South Africa say a suspected underground gas explosion during Johannesburg’s evening rush hour ripped open roads and flipped more than 20 cars in South Africa’s biggest city.

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Plumes of heat-trapping pollutants last billowed from the giant stacks of South Africa's Komati Power Station in October.

Nigeria's removal of a subsidy that helped reduce the price of gasoline has increased costs for people already struggling with high inflation.

Renowned photographer and artist Roger Ballen is staging an art exhibition in the heart of Johannesburg that is addressing the destruction of African wildlife and the relationship between humans and animals on the continent.

Three cheetah cubs born to a big cat brought to India from Africa last year died in the past week in central India’s Kuno National Park.

At least 17 people have died in a cholera outbreak in the Hammanskraal township outside South Africa's capital of Pretoria.

Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko is giving voices that have long been silenced a platform at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale.

Police say 10 members of the same family were killed in a mass shooting at a house in South Africa.

A pilot in South Africa made a hasty emergency landing after discovering a highly venomous cobra hiding under his seat.

Former Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius was denied parole Friday after it was decided that he had not served the “minimum detention period” required to be released from prison following his murder conviction for the 2013 killing of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

The global rivalry between the United States and China has been a recurring backdrop during Vice President Kamala Harris’ trip to Africa.

The electricity shortages that plague many of Africa’s 54 countries are a serious drain on the continent’s economic growth.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Ethiopia and Niger next week as the Biden administration accelerates a push to engage with Africa to counter China's growing influence on the continent.

South Africa’s ever-worsening power crisis — putting homes and businesses without electricity for up to 10 hours per day — is strangling Africa’s most developed economy.

A damaging tropical cyclone dumped “dangerous and exceptional rainfall levels” over Mozambique Friday as the long-lasting weather system continued to wreak havoc across southern Africa.

South Africa’s troubled state-owned power utility Eskom has appointed an interim chief executive after a fallout with its outgoing head over a media interview he gave alleging ongoing corruption at the company linked to the ruling party.

India has welcomed 12 cheetahs from South Africa that will join eight others it received from Namibia last year as part of an ambitious drive to reintroduce the big cats in the country after 70 years.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is warning that the U.S. faces “economic catastrophe” if Congress and the White House don’t take action to raise the federal debt limit.

Germany has apologized for using a leopard emoji in a jibe at Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Twitter that ended up offending some Africans.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has visited sites in rural and urban Zambia to showcase Africa's potential to help solve the world's problems with food shortages.

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is the second Cabinet member heading to Africa as part of President Joe Biden’s big push to engage with the world’s second-largest continent.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is visiting Senegal with a message about the future of U.S.-Africa relations.

Authorities in South Africa are searching for a tiger that escaped from its enclosure at a farm near Johannesburg over the weekend.

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party on Sunday marks its 111th anniversary with celebratory events in Mangaung, Free State province, where the organization was founded in 1912.

South Africa’s coastal city of Durban has closed its North Beach after three people died when they were caught in a freak wave.

South Africa’s parliament voted against starting impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa over a report that says he held undeclared foreign currency at his farm in 2020.

The World Health Organization’s Africa director said that the continent is preparing for the next health crisis by strengthening gaps in health systems found in the continent's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The World Cup 2010 in South Africa had Shakira.

South Africa’s highest Court has ordered the release of Janusz Walus, the man jailed for killing anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani in 1993.

The head of Africa’s top public health institute is urging authorities across the continent to step up COVID-19 testing amid a concerning rise in new cases in some countries.

Indonesia has signed deals with international lenders and major economies that will bring billions of dollars in funding to help the country increase its use of renewable energy.

The U.S. has imposed its second round of sanctions in less than a week on people and firms in Africa who it says have provided financial or material support to the Islamic State group.

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Ethiopia’s warring sides have formally agreed during talks in South Africa to a permanent cessation of hostilities in a 2-year conflict whose victims could be counted in the hundreds of thousands.

Women’s rights groups in South Africa have expressed outrage at the withdrawing of charges against 14 suspects accused of gang raping and robbing female members of a film crew at an abandoned mine near Johannesburg.

The Ethiopian prime minister’s national security adviser says the African Union has scheduled peace talks to resolve Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict for Oct. 24.

Vote counting has begun in southern Africa’s tiny mountain kingdom of Lesotho following a day when thousands of citizens in urban and rural areas voted to elect the country’s 120 legislators.

Seven decades after cheetahs died out in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has released eight cats that were transported from Namibia to their new home: a national park in the heart of India.

A moody, brooding and floating installation by Malagasy artist Joel Andrianomearisoa is transforming the towering atrium of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art in Cape Town.

South Africa is flying cheetahs to India and Mozambique as part of ambitious efforts to reintroduce the distinctive spotted cats in regions where their population has dwindled.

Trevor Immelman is using five of his six captain’s picks on Presidents Cup rookies.

A somber gathering of about 5,000 marked the 10th anniversary of what has become known as the Marikana massacre, when police opened fire on striking miners, killing 34 in 2012.

Africa’s national parks, home to thousands of wildlife species such as lions, elephants and buffaloes, are increasingly threatened by from below-average rainfall and new infrastructure projects, stressing habitats and the species that rely on them.

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South Africa’s neutral stance on Russia’s war in Ukraine was discussed in a meeting Monday between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and South Africa’s Minister of International Relations Naledi Pandor.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken began his three-nation tour of Africa Sunday by visiting a museum in Soweto commemorating how South Africa’s Black youths helped to end white racist rule.

While millions across Europe sweat through a summer of record-breaking heat, others are skiing in Africa.

Public health officials warn that moves by rich countries to buy large quantities of monkeypox vaccine could leave millions of people in Africa unprotected against a more dangerous version of the disease.

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party begins its key policy conference on Friday beset by internal divisions and the country’s economic woes.

Britain’s Prince Harry is challenging people everywhere to adopt Nelson Mandela’s spirit of hope in an uncertain and divided world to reclaim democracies and leave a better future for children.

Countries on Africa’s east coast are increasingly turning to climate funding initiatives to boost livelihoods of oceanside communities, aid biodiversity and take climate action.

Caster Semenya has been listed to compete at next week’s world championships in Eugene, Oregon.

Health authorities in Africa say they are treating the expanding monkeypox outbreak here as an emergency and call on rich countries to share the world's limited supply of vaccines.

South African police are investigating the deaths of at least 21 people at a nightclub in the coastal town of East London Sunday and authorities say most of the victims were minors as young as 13-year-old.

As the World Health Organization convenes its emergency committee to consider if the spiraling outbreak of monkeypox warrants being declared a global emergency, some experts say WHO’s decision to act only after the disease spilled into the West could entrench the inequities that arose between rich and poor countries during the coronavirus pandemic.

Leaders of Commonwealth nations are calling for increased climate action at a meeting in Rwanda this week, ahead of the United Nations climate change summit in the seaside resort of Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt later this year.

Families across Africa are paying about 45% more for wheat flour as Russia's war in Ukraine blocks exports from the Black Sea.

The World Health Organization says the number of new coronavirus cases and deaths are still falling globally after peaking in January.

Environmental activists are meeting in South Africa this week to press governments and businesses to reduce the production of plastic because it is harming the continent’s environment.

More than 300 people have been evacuated from their homes as a result of renewed heavy rains, flooding and mudslides in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, weeks after severe flooding killed more than 400 people and displaced more than 40,000 others.

Health experts in South Africa say the country is experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants.

The fatal floods that wreaked havoc in South Africa in mid-April this year have been attributed to human-caused climate change, a rapid analysis published Friday by a team of leading international scientists said.

The first factory to produce COVID-19 vaccines in Africa has announced that it has not received enough orders and is planning to stop production within a few weeks, in what a senior World Health Organization official described as a “failure” in efforts to achieve vaccine equity.

The World Health Organization says the number of new coronavirus cases reported worldwide has continued to fall except in the Americas and Africa.

The World Health Organization says that Africa is seeing a surge of outbreaks of preventable diseases as a result of disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Trevor Noah will visit the University of Michigan in September.

Devastating floods in South Africa this week, as well as other extreme weather events across the continent linked to human-caused climate change, are putting marine and terrestrial wildlife species at risk, according to biodiversity experts.

The World Health Organization says the number of coronavirus cases and deaths in Africa have dropped to their lowest levels since the pandemic began, marking the longest decline yet seen in the disease.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says flooding in the Durban area has taken at least 259 lives and is a “catastrophe of enormous proportions.”.

The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths reported to the World Health Organization has fallen for a third consecutive week.

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Prolonged rains and flooding in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province have claimed the lives of at least 45 people.

Extreme rainfall in southeast Africa has become heavier and more likely to occur during cyclones because of climate change, according to a new analysis released Monday by an international team of weather scientists.

The corruption trial in South Africa of former President Jacob Zuma has been postponed again pending the outcome of the ex-leader’s appeal to get the state prosecutor removed from his case.

The World Health Organization said that up to 65% of people in Africa have been infected with the coronavirus and estimates the number of actual cases may have been nearly 100 times more than those reported.

With declining cases of COVID-19, South Africa’s president has announced that it is no longer mandatory to wear masks outdoors and vaccinated travelers entering the country are no longer required to produce negative PCR tests.

At the World Wildlife Conference in Panama later this year, discussions are expected to center around African wildlife such as elephants, big cats and rosewood trees.

Four Bengal tigers rescued from years of captivity in a train carriage in Argentina have been released into open-air enclosures in South Africa.

The World Health Organization says it has issued guidance advising people on how to test themselves for the coronavirus, months after critics said the lack of recommendations was compromising efforts to stop the pandemic in poor countries.

The death toll from COVID-19 has surpassed 6 million.

The world is on the verge of recording its 6 millionth official COVID-19 death, underscoring that the pandemic is far from over.

The World Health Organization is creating a global training center to help poorer countries make vaccines, antibodies and cancer treatments using the messenger RNA technology used to make COVID-19 vaccines.

Since 1984 at least one African nation has competed at each subsequent winter Olympics.

Africa’s top health official is launching a campaign to enlist young people to encourage vaccinations, as just 11.3% of the continent’s 1.3 billion people are vaccinated against COVID-19.