Madagascan police on Friday called for candidates to exercise restraint as near-complete results were tallied from a first-round presidential election last week, with two former leaders looking set to go through to the run-off. With 96 percent of all polling stations counted, Andry Rajoelina was on 39.38 percent and Marc Ravalomanana on 34.19 pe ...

Abidjan, C ocirc;te d rsquo;Ivoire, 16 November 2018 ndash; The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank has approved its third equity investment of US$40 million in Africa Infrastructure Investment Fund (AIIF3), a closed-ended pan-African infrastructure fund managed by South Africa-based Africa Infrastructure Investment Managers (AII ...

Hundreds of journalists, many from countries where censorship is rife, have converged on the Tunisian capital for a conference on freedom of expression and new challenges facing the media. The three-day forum, which opened on Thursday, has attracted 600 journalists, bloggers, newspaper chiefs and media academics from Arabic and French-speaking c ...

The South African city of Cape Town, which nearly ran out of water this year, could beat future droughts by cutting down non-native trees including pine, acacia and eucalyptus, according to a study released Friday. The tourist hotspot was weeks away from turning off all household and business taps before strict rationing and much-needed rain ena ...

Australia have clearly toned down their sledging since a ball-tampering scandal broke, South Africa captain Faf du Plessis said Friday, but urged them not to totally sacrifice their confrontational approach. Coach Justin Langer and Test skipper Tim Paine have both pledged to change the win-at-all-costs culture that was rampant when Australian pl ...

A Murrayfield fortress awaits Rassie Erasmus on Saturday as South Africa's coach returns to the ground where he helped inflict Scotland's greatest home loss in his playing days. The former Springbok flanker plundered the second of 10 South African tries in a 68-10 victory in 1997 that remains Scotland's all-time record margin of defeat -- and in ...

South African captain Faf du Plessis said on Friday the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia in two years' time will be his last. The 34-year-old, who has led his country in two World T20 campaigns, in 2014 and 2016, is keen to play a third but will then step aside. The T20 World Cup in 2020 is something I'm really looking forward to. I think rig ...