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Africa’s stunted development is a product of self-sabotage and lingering colonialism, Danai Gurira tells Global Citizen Now summit in New York.

The defence in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial has alleged the state is conducting the trial by ambush by not timeously sharing documentation, but the prosecution says this is a ploy as the evidence was disclosed electronically last year.

A collapse of an expressway section in China's Guangdong province caused vehicles to plunge and killed 36 people while injuring another 30, state media reported on Thursday.

Cries of distress led a Cape of Good Hope SPCA inspector to lift the lid off a steel drum and be greeted by a heartbreaking sight.

A Limpopo man arrested for the murder of his sister and her baby is due to appear in the Phalaborwa magistrate's court on Thursday.

How many more workers would we have if the government had spent its wasteful expenditure on small business development?

Extensive work will be needed to restore electricity in the inner city after the cables caught fire underground, Johannesburg City Power says.

"Everything is so hard without you."

Hena Khan, a grade 9 student in Dhaka, has struggled to focus on her studies this week as temperatures surpassed 43°C in the Bangladesh capital.

Western tanks and military hardware captured by Russian forces in Ukraine went on display in Moscow on Wednesday at an exhibition the Russian military said showed Western help would not stop it winning the war.