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Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² (11.7 million sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Sport, like so many other aspects of life, was divided along racial lines in apartheid South Africa.
White rugby fans in the Johannesburg area are trying to close the divide that endures 18 years after apartheid's end. Panorama sports club members have been working with community development organizations in some of the townships set aside for blacks under apartheid, neighborhoods that remain predominantly black and poor. Sixteen black players are now on Panorama's junior rugby team.Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid icon, made a dramatic gesture of reconciliation when he attended the 1995 World Cup rugby final wearing a South Africa jersey. Mandela said without words that sport could be for all South Africans. The Panorama Cobras are trying to make that vision real....The chairman of West Africa's regional bloc on Tuesday criticized South Africa for sending a warship to the region amid Ivory Coast's political crisis, but the South...
South Africa's main opposition party called a march Tuesday to make a point about economic policy, but ended up facing rock-throwing counter-protesters in scenes tha...
Four-times champion Tiger Woods looked close to his very best in tough conditions at the Memorial tournament on Friday, ending a grueling second round one shot behin...
A lawyer for South Africa's president broke down in tears Thursday as he tried to convince three judges that the display of a portrait that depicts the president's g...
South African President Jacob Zuma has withdrawn his legal case against a gallery that displayed a portrait depicting his genitals.The agreement, in which the Goodma...
US Embassy: American kidnapped in West African nation of Benin.
Negotiations between two rebel groups in Mali's north, who signed an initial agreement to merge and create a new Islamic state in the region, have run into problems ...
An American citizen has been kidnapped in the normally peaceful and politically stable nation of Benin, according to U.S. officials.A statement published Tuesday on ...
Former Australian Open runner-up Jo- Wilfried Tsonga, former Wimbledon finalist Tomas Berdych and former U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro were a trio of thir...
A spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior confirmed an American citizen who was kidnapped in the West African nation of Benin earlier this month has been freed an...
Former Wimbledon runner-up Tomas Berdych needed all five sets to post a third-round victory Friday at the 2012 French Open.The seventh-seeded Czech slugger fought of...
Nelson Mandela's African National Congress brought its centenary celebrations to his home village in rural eastern South Africa Wednesday.State television released i...
A lifetime ago, a young black South African student was on trial with 21 other suspects accused by the white racist government of treason, terrorism and working for ...
Struggling but deserving designers will get a chance to show work inspired by the creativity and history of South Africa's most famous township in Soweto's first fas...
Victor Chikelu, a Nigerian medical student, was punched and told to go back to Africa by a drunk in the Kiev subway two years ago. But he, like other Africans who ha...
An American citizen has been kidnapped in the normally peaceful and politically stable nation of Benin, according to U.S. officials.A statement published Tuesday on ...
Young people tweeting from BlackBerries and iPhones are driving the growth of Twitter in Africa , with South Africans by far the most vociferous, according to new re...
Playwright, director and actor John Ledwaba gave up theater during South Africa's turbulent 1980s and left his Soweto home to train to be an anti-apartheid guerrilla...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela is leaving Johannesburg on Tuesday to take up residence in his eastern home village of Qunu, the country's current lead...
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