The NBA and YouTube announced Wednesday the launch of a channel for sub-Saharan Africa that will broadcast live games every week and showcase African players 39; impact on the NBA. NBA Africa YouTube 39;s first live game broadcasts will take place Sunday with Boston at Charlotte followed by the Los Angeles Clippers at New York. Two li ...

The United Nations said Wednesday it will be seeking a large amount of funding from member-states to help deal with the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Idai. This may be one of the worst natural disasters to hit southern Africa in living memory and so we will need to do quite a lot, UN spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters at UN headquarter ...

Perched on the terraces of a sports stadium, scores of marooned people stare down at a basketball court filled with dirty brown water. Five days after a vicious tropical storm tore through their neighbourhood in Buzi, central Mozambique, they remain trapped by flood water. http://cdn.modernghana.com/images/content/afp people ...

Pope Francis expressed his pain Wednesday at the devastation wrought by Cyclone Idai in southern Africa and called for comfort and support for victims of the disaster. Great floods have sown grief and devastation in various regions of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, he said, addressing thousands of the faithful in Saint Peter 39;s Squ ...

Highly sophisticated criminal gangs in Asia are making it more difficult for African authorities to combat rhino horn trafficking, with high demand in Vietnam and China from consumers willing to pay astronomical prices driving the poaching crisis. Seven Chinese nationals are facing trial in the northern resort town of Hwange, in Zimbabwe. T ...