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International partners would prefer not to channel their money through the SADC.

A group of scientists unexpectedly discovered an iron plume spanning 1,000km (620 miles) in the South Atlantic Ocean between Brazil and Namibia.

Curvy women from across the continent will participate in the Harare pageant.

A new study tries to understand when our earliest ancestors -- one man and one woman -- lived and how the human race expanded across the planet.

More than one-half (53 percent) of Malawians live below the poverty line, while more than 90 percent of the population lives on less than $2 per day.

Full text of the final communiqué issued by leaders of the G-8 nations on Tuesday.

On May 25, 1963, the AU’s predecessor, the Organization of African Unity, was established.

Samuel Eto'o helped Cameroon gain an edge in World Cup qualification.

Swaziland has failed to produce enough food to feed itself for the past four decades.

Which countries will you visit next year? We've got some ideas.

Just one day after announcing the iPhone 5 in 54 new countries, Apple released the iTunes Store in 56 countries around the world on Tuesday, including Russia, India and South Africa.

CEOs from over 40 international companies urged nations around the world to end HIV-based travel restrictions.

De Niro and wife Grace Hightower have trouble renting after a fire destroys their Central Park West home.

Rhino poaching has seen a resurgence in recent years due to an increase of demand for their horns in Asian markets. But all across Africa, local community members are working tocreate sanctuaries and lessen the risk of extinction.

Speaking on the first day of the 2012 International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C., chief executives from over 20 leading multinational corporations called upon 46 countries to lift travel restrictions on HIV-positive individuals.

In Namibia, finding an aquifer is akin to striking gold.

Namibia is sending 148 wild animals overseas to Cuba, where they will become residents of the National Zoological Park outside of Havana.

Armando Montano had been interning with the Associated Press in Mexico City for less than a month before he was found dead at the bottom of an elevator shaft.

As expected, the App Store has officially launched in 32 new countries as of Friday, including Albania, Fiji, Namibia, Nepal, and Ukraine. This means that app developers can now sell or distribute their applications for gaming, productivity, news, business, education and entertainment in a total of 155 countries around the globe.

African governments -- and international animal-rights organizations -- contend the Chinese luxury consumer's appetite for ivory is driving a new wave of illegal killing of one of their continent's most iconic animals.

A lake on Titan, the largest of Saturn's moons, bears striking resemblance to a lake on Earth, NASA and the European Space Agency said on in a joint study.