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Angolan officials said all movement of people from northern Luande Norte province to DR Congo would be stopped. The outbreak in DR Congo was the first in Africa in several months and the fourth in DR Congo since 1976. It...

Consumer food brands maker Foodcorp has agreed to pay a fine of R45.4m for participating in the bread and milling cartel that rocked the country late in 2007. In a statement issued on Monday, the Competition Commission said it had...

Limpopo still had the most cases of cholera followed by Gauteng. Hadebe described reported instances of cholera in other provinces as "isolated" and said authorities were conducting tests to "determine the true patient situation".

Microsoft Corp sold 28 million units worldwide of its Xbox 360 video game console through the end of 2008, expanding the Xbox's lead over rival Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 console in worldwide unit sales, the company said on Monday. Xbox...

In the darkness after pre-dawn prayer a village elder would squint at the sky overhead, tilting his head back until his cap fell off, looking for a cluster of bright stars that signalled the middle of the rainy season. Now...

Ebola in central Africa.     The finding was based on the initial results of the laboratory of the National Institute of Biological Researches in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo).     DR Congo's Ministry of Health declared...

Japan's fourth-biggest car maker said before taking a zero emission vehicle out for a spin. As mass-produced electric cars come closer to reality, their makers are trying to polish the image of what experts say could be a hard sell...

PF party and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change say they want resolution so they can turn their attention to rescuing their country from economic collapse. But there was little prospect of a breakthrough at Sunday's summit of...

An occurrence of infectious salmon anaemia (Isa) has been confirmed at one salmon farm and is also suspected at two further sites in the Burra area, west of Shetland...The Scottish Government has set up a national disease control centre and...