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(CNN) -- First lady Michelle Obama's official trip to southern Africa this week will focus on youth leadership and education and will include meetings with key figures in the anti-apartheid struggle. Obama will make stops in South Africa and Botswana during the weeklong visit that starts...

Somali police said on Saturday that Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, Africa's most wanted al Qaeda operative, was killed in the capital of the Horn of Africa country Tuesday. Mohammed was reputed to run al Qaeda in east Africa, operated in Somalia and evaded capture for over a decade after being...

OHANNESBURG - The lawyer of Haiti's Jean-Bertrand Aristide says actor Danny Glover has arrived in South Africa to escort the exiled former president home.

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/02/18/bs.protest.region.explainer.cnn Two months ago, a Tunisian fruit vendor struck a match that started a fire that has spread throughout much of North Africa and the Middle East. CNN's Michael Holmes and John Vause explain the tumult sweeping across...

– First Indonesia, now South Africa making the argument that it’s an emerging economy worthy of the BRIC acronym. South Africa’s leader has reportedly been invited to the next BRIC summit, coming up in April, in Beijing. China is apparently in favor, and Russia too, with both countries touting...

GENEVA – The World Health Organization says a massive malaria control program since 2008 has helped reduce infections across Africa and eradicate the disease in Morocco and Turkmenistan. The U.N. health agency says the billions of dollars poured into the program have helped buy anti-malaria...

More than 50 million sheep and goats in 15 countries across southern Africa are at risk from a virus with a death rate that can approach 100 percent, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization said Tuesday. While the Small Ruminants' Plague does not infect humans, the U.N. agency...

Beijing, China -- Trade between China and Africa is on track to hit more than $110 billion this year, setting a new record, Chinese state-run media said Friday. China has increasingly turned to resource-rich Africa as China's booming economy has demanded more and more oil and raw materials...

Man spends 114 days in snake-filled room JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, A British man set a world record in South Africa by spending 114 days in a small room with 40 venomous snakes, and he is planning to stay for a few more days. David Jones of Sussex, England, has spent four months in the...

S. Africa to dissolve six monarchies PRETORIA , South Africa, Six of South Africa's traditional monarchies will be dissolved when the current ruler dies, President Jacob Zuma announced this week. Zuma's decision follows the recommendation of a report by the Commission on Traditional...

Sports Calendar for Tuesday, June 22 (All times Eastern) Baseball Inter-league Florida at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m. Cleveland at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m. Kansas City at Washington , 7:05 p.m. St. Louis at Toronto at 7:07 p.m. San Diego at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m. Detroit at N.Y. Mets, 7:10...

Sports Calendar for Monday, June 20 (All times Eastern) Baseball Inter-league Kansas City at Washington, 7:05 p.m. Cincinnati at Oakland, 10:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Arizona, 10:10 p.m. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Soccer World Cup...

Sports Calendar for Sunday, June 20 (All times Eastern) Baseball Inter-league N.Y. Mets at N.Y. Yankees, 12:05 PM Arizona at Detroit, 1:05 p.m. San Francisco at Toronto, 1:07 p.m. Tampa Bay at Florida, 1:10 p.m. Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 1:35 p.m. Kansas City at Atlanta, 1:35 p.m...

Sports Calendar for Saturday, June 19 (All times Eastern) Baseball Inter-league LA Angels at Chi. Cubs, 1:05 p.m. N.Y. Mets at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m. San Francisco at Toronto, 1:07 p.m. Chi. White Sox at Washington, 4:10 p.m. Minnesota at Philadelphia, 4:10 p.m. LA Dodgers at Boston...

Sports Calendar for Wednesday, June 16 (All times Eastern) Baseball Inter-league Baltimore at San Francisco, 3:45 p.m. Toronto at San Diego, 6:35 p.m. Milwaukee at LA Angels, 7:05 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m. Chi. White Sox at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m. Philadelphia at N.Y. Yankees...

Sports Calendar for Sunday, June 13 (All times Eastern) Baseball Inter-league Pittsburgh at Detroit, 1:05 p.m. Washington at Cleveland, 1:05 p.m. Houston at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m. Kansas City at Cincinnati, 1:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Baltimore, 1:35 p.m. Philadelphia at Boston, 1:35 p.m...

Sports Calendar for Saturday, June 12 (All times Eastern) Baseball Inter-league Houston at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m. Chi. White Sox at Chi. Cubs, 4:10 p.m. Philadelphia at Boston, 4:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m. Pittsburgh at Detroit, 7:05 p.m. Washington at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m...

Police downplay World Cup terror alert JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, (UPI) -- South Africa is not facing a terror threat in the run-up to the World Cup soccer tournament, the country's police minister said Monday. Nathi Mthethwa, seeking to dispel worries in the wake of last week's alert by the...

LONDON (AFP) – AB de Villiers's 79 not out provided the platform for South Africa to crush Scotland by 130 runs in the Proteas' opening match of the ICC World Twenty20 at the Oval here on Sunday. Scotland, chasing a target of 212 after South Africa made 211 for five, slumped to 81 all out - the...

LONDON (Reuters) – AB de Villiers cracked 79 from 34 balls to inspire South Africa to a crushing 130-run victory over Scotland in their Twenty20 World Cup group D match at the Oval on Sunday. South Africa reached 211 for five, the highest score of the tournament so far, before bundling the...