SOUTH AFRICA

Unidentified gunmen as well as local residents targeted the agency in Mogadishu Tuesday, five days after Somalia cut ties with Tehran.

Pistorius was charged with the premeditated murder of Reeva Steenkamp, who was found shot to death in February 2013.

The three single-engine multirole fighters, jointly developed by Pakistani and Chinese engineers, may help in the battle against Boko Haram.

The past year saw deals worth nearly $4.3 trillion — significantly above the previous peak, before the financial crisis, according to a Thursday report.

Persisting uncertainties and headwinds in emerging economies forced the international lender to trim global growth forecast for the third straight year.

The nation's government has been urged to suspend its nuclear procurement plans and hold a referendum about the issue.

Africa's most industrialized economy may add as many as 9,600 megawatts of nuclear power to its electrical grid, now heavily reliant on coal.

The #RhodesMustFall movement has gained momentum among students who have criticized Cecil Rhodes for his segregationist legacy.

India and Russia have enjoyed strong ties in recent years, with New Delhi buying billions of dollars in weapons from Moscow.

Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said Monday Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has been “surreptitiously but willingly replaced by his wife,” Grace Mugabe, "in a palace coup."

China is Zimbabwe's second-largest trading partner, having received more than $1 billion in low-interest loans from Beijing in the past five years.

The widely anticipated U.S. interest rate hike has spelled good news for currencies in South Africa and Turkey, but others are struggling.

Mireia Lalaguna Royo of Spain was crowned Miss World 2015 Saturday, beating 116 other contestants in the international beauty pageant held this year in Sanya, China.

Todd Stern saw an opportunity for consensus by aligning the United States with a loose assembly of rich and poor nations.

Some economies, such as Ghana, South Africa and Angola — with ballooning debt and high exposure to global markets — will be most vulnerable to the Fed's rate hike, analysts said.

As Wednesday's Fed rate decision looms, investors in emerging economies, which may see large capital outflows in the coming months, are holding their breath.

With its investment reputation on the line, South Africa must do more than appoint a credible finance minister: It must tackle ballooning public debt and unemployment.

A hacker used the Twitter account of South African President Jacob Zuma to call for his removal in a series of tweets.

Pravin Gordhan, returning to the post he held from 2009 to 2014, reassured investors and the struggling market following his appointment Monday.

World leaders will have to balance domestic concerns and global realities in order to implement the agreement's key provisions.

A deal with the U.S. tech giant shows the limits of China's tech protectionism: Either Western businesses help, or the Chinese continue enduring dirty air.