SOUTH AFRICA

Progress is slow, but joining stock markets in East Africa could make the region more attractive to investors.

Parvez Rasool wants to be judged only according to his athletic skills, not questioned about his political loyalties.

Investors and bankers are attempting to cope with June's dramatic drop, as new pricing spurs mixed activity in the gold market.

The bodies of three of Nelson Mandela’s deceased children have been ordered returned to their original gravesites after Mandela’s grandson moved the bodies to a different location in 2011.

De Klerk, 77, the last white president of South Africa before the fall of apartheid, shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Mandela in 1993.

The Chinese investment vehicle CAD Fund will ramp up its investments in Africa to build markets and spur development.

Nelson Mandela is widely regarded as a beloved peace icon, while Yasser Araft remains largely a pariah outside the Arab and Muslim world.

The George W. Bush Institute in Dallas and the White House both have declared that the concurrent trips to Africa by two US presidents was simply coincidental

If Mandela is honored at Westminster Abbey, it would mark a dramatic about-face for a government that once regarded him as a terrorist.

The U.S. President and first family visited the prison where South Africa's apartheid government held Mandela for 27 years.

Obama pays a visit to the Mandelas after a town hall with South African youths that was met with protests.

Worsening clashes between supporters and foes of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood claimed their first American victim. He was 21.

The White House says President Obama will follow the family's lead on whether it will be possible to meet Mandela.

Amina Cachalia came from a prominent family of South African Indian activists.

In China's shadow, India -- the other emerging Asian superpower -- is making moves in Africa.

South Africans stood outside Mandela's hospital in Pretoria with lit candles as they honored the anti-apartheid icon.

After The Guardian Express reported Nelson Mandela died, Twitter grieved for the hero and accidentally shared Morgan Freeman's picture.

Brazil and Uruguay meet in the first Confederations Cup semifinal in Belo Horizonte.

The controversial trader and founder of Glencore-Xstrata, one of the world’s largest commodities companies, will be buried in Israel.

Obama's visit to Africa this week could spur American economic partnerships in the region, at long last.

South African hero Nelson Mandela remains in critical condition and will not be able to see President Obama during his visit.