SOUTH AFRICA

South African authorities request their counterparts across the continent help in defeating the "demon" of xenophobia.

Xenophobic violence in KwaZulu-Natal province prompts reactions in Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique and Kenya as well.

A border post separating South Africa and Mozambique was closed Friday after a group of Mozambicans barricaded the area.

Malawi, Nigeria and Kenya are calling for the evacuation of their nationals amid continuing attacks in the city of Durban.

Many Africans were using cell phones to make payments long before it was cool in Europe and North America.

At least five people have been killed and hundreds more displaced in South African in recent days in a wave of xenophobic attacks.

A new study found cell phones are now as common in South Africa and Nigeria as they are in the United States, but landline telephones are rare.

10 entrepreneurs -- addressing obstacles in education, infrastructure, health and other areas -- are finalists for an innovation prize.

Investment in large wind and solar projects slowed in China, Europe and Brazil, but rose in the U.S. and India, a report says.

The latest finding suggests that the Little Foot skeleton was buried 3.67 million years ago.

Investors expected the worst, but Nigerian citizens proved them wrong.

For his fifth trip to Africa, Obama will be co-hosting a meeting for business owners, investors and policymakers.

The 31-year-old South African comedian will have to pull in viewers on the second screen, too.

Comedy Central officially says the 31-year-old contributor to “The Daily Show” will take over as host when Jon Stewart steps down.

The imam of a Cape Town mosque is challenging the idea that Islam bans interfaith marriages.

The global market for Islamic financial services is estimated at $2 trillion.

By the time Ebola was declared an emergency in August last year, about 1,000 people had died from the virus.

Didier Reynders' actions have raised questions about the country's lack of a national anti-racism plan.

China has employed diplomacy, and more unorthodox measures, to secure the return of fugitives who have fled abroad.

A deadly attack in Tunisia "strengthens our determination" to fight global terror, the European Union's Federica Mogherini says.

Collins Chabane was a minister in the President's office and a member of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) National Executive Committee.