Mozambique

US secretary of state John Kerry with wife on Nantucket Island when she fell ill.

President Jacob Zuma claims Mandela's health has improved while daughter says journalists are acting like 'vultures'.

In Senegal accompanied by the first lady Michelle and daughters Obama met with president Macky Sall

President Jacob Zuma cancels trip to Mozambique and Barack Obama puts planned visit on hold.

UBS analysts say the biggest risk for Asian markets is a further spike in US Treasury yields and not China's financial instability.

South Africa considering re-erection of border fences to stop incursions into Kruger National Park from Limpopo.

Seven months after man fell from inbound plane on to suburban street in Mortlake police identify him as Mozambican stowaway.

Kloppers becomes the fourth major mining executive to leave within the past six months.

Crocodiles escape from Rakwena farm following heavy rain in the area.

Chairman says he's 'deeply disappointed' with news of $14bn impairment of two of group's key mining assets.

Chandrashekar Srinivasan looks at the sad decline of the lion population in west and central Africa, and the worrying trends which suggest extinction is not far away.

Questions are being raised on the use of guns against the miners who were armed only with clubs and spears.

WWF and Traffic voice support as Gabon president Ali Baba lit a pyre of more than 4,000 Kilos of Ivory blocked from illegal trade in Asia.

Outrage over a cartoon animation making fun of Shangaans and the Christian faith has led to a complaint being lodged with the Human Rights Commission.

SABMiller Plc plans to revamp breweries with $2.5 billion investment in Africa as the group sees strong prospects for increasing its volumes, revenues and profitability.

Prince Harry arrived in Belize, popularly known as the jewel of the Caribbean, as part of his seven-day royal tour for the queen's Diamond jubilee celebrations.

Boys at circumcision ritual ordered to attack woman for walking through field without permission.

Tropical depression Dando wrecks houses and topples power lines in Maputo and southern provinces.

South African rangers kill two more poachers in gun battle in prestige national park.

Record number of large scale ivory seizures in 2011 makes it the “worst year ever” for African wildlife.

British lawyer Peter Benson began the movement that led to the establishment of Amnesty International in May 1961 by issuing an "appeal for amnesty" on behalf of two Portuguese students who had been imprisoned for raising their glasses in a "toast to freedom".