The new leader of South Africa's official opposition knows that the chances of a white person ever again leading this predominantly black country, still traumatised by apartheid, remain as remote as ever. And so Helen Zille seems to have set

Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said he would press cricket officials to scrap the tour, which he said would bolster President Robert Mugabe

As early as 1966, Dr Patrick Steptoe, a gynaecologist at Oldham General Hospital, and Dr Robert Edwards, a physiologist at Cambridge University, were experimenting on how to fertilise a woman egg outside the womb.

A row has erupted between villagers in Nandi and Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) over a rare animal found in the area.

The ZCTU said such an income distribution protocol would help in drawing up a social contract between business, labor and government

One faction of the opposition says it won't bother with a by-election given the unfavorable electoral climate and the short horizon to parliamentary elections in March 2008

The country's first test tube babies celebrated their first birthday yesterday, amid passionate appeals to the Government to subsidise in-vitro fertilisation for affected couples.

Female circumcision is still common in many parts of Rift Valley Province, leading to a high drop-out rate in schools among girls.

High political experience and presumed economic know-how were two major factors that wooed electorates in Madam Johnson-Sirleaf's favor in the tension-packed 2005 elections.

Following today's Pre-Trial conference in The Hague, opening arguments in the highly anticipated trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor are set to take place on June 4, a Press Release issued yesterday by the Special Court said.

Voicing concern over increased friction between Ethiopia and Eritrea, which have hit a stalemate in efforts to resolve their border dispute, the United Nations Security Council today called on both Horn of Africa countries to refrain from violence.

The Kenya shilling strengthened against the dollar yesterday, helped by strong currency flows from the agriculture and tourism sectors, dealers said.

The Tsvangirai faction's Bulawayo spokesman, Felix Mafa, said more top-level defections from the Mutambara MDC faction can be expected

Human rights groups said the attack is part of the ongoing crackdown on critics of the government of President Robert Mugabe ahead of presidential and general elections in March 2008

Sofapaka FC once again wrested the top spot of the Nationwide League over the weekend after collecting six points in their tour of the Coast.

Schools are reopening for the second term during which students, especially those sitting national examinations, will have a lot of work to do as they prepare for examinations in the last quarter of the year. It is, therefore, imperative that

Kenya wants Canada to analyse flight data recorder recovered from the wreckage of the ill-fated Kenya Airways plane that crashed in Douala, Cameroun.

Over 16 foreign clubs are expected to arrive today for the regional East and Central Africa volleyball club championship which gets underway tomorrow at the Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani.