The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has expressed its satisfaction with the regional grouping’s first military standby force exercise, codenamed Exercise Golfinho.

Despite readily available vaccines, death rate of sickle-cell anemia in African children remains to be a growing concern, researchers said Thursday.

A female Angolan giraffe (also known as the 'Smoky Giraffe') has been born at the Selwo Adventure Park in Estepona, in the province of Malaga.

U.K. journalist Jim Wickens and Bart Smithers, a South African filmmaker, were arrested yesterday while filming Namibia’s annual seal cull.

A hydrographer from the South African Navy, Captain Abri Kampfer, has won the Alexander Dalrymple Award for hydrography. The award was instituted by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office in recognition of outstanding work in the field.

Is 'Poorism' a voyeuristic expedition to see people less fortunate than ourselves or is it a sustainable form of tourism that will benefit residents of impoversihed neighbourhoods?

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) and South Africa’s National Health Department have confirmed two suspected cases of Swine Flu, both in people who have recently travelled and been to Mexico.

In Namibia, a political party, The Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) has called for the establishment of a South African-type Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Africa might not be the first continent that comes to mind when it comes to space exploration, but that could soon change.

Over $2,700 000 dollars is urgently needed to support the Government of Namibia in responding to the plight of up to 350,000 people hit by widespread floods.