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JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) said on Tuesday an expropriation bill passed by parliament in 2016 enabling the state to make compulsory purchases of land to redress racial disparities in land ownership has been withdrawn.

South Sudan rebel chief Riek Machar on Tuesday refused to sign a final peace deal with the government, in a setback for a regional drive to end nearly five years of brutal civil war.

A senior Vatican official called on Pope Francis to resign, accusing the pontiff of failing to act sooner on sexual abuse allegations against former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.

Robert Kyagulanyi, a musician-turned-MP whose arrest prompted protests in Uganda, has been granted bail by a court in the northern city of Gulu.

WINDHOEK— Namibia will hold countrywide land expropriation talks for the first time since independence as the small southern African nation grapples with political and ethnic tensions over the transfer of wealth to its majority black population.

WASHINGTON— U.S. Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam who ran for president in 2008 as a self-styled maverick Republican and became a prominent critic of President Donald Trump, died on Saturday, his office said. He was 81.

Mountainous hurdles face the Democratic Republic of Congo as it prepares for elections, just four months away, that will shape the future of one of the world’s powder-keg countries.

US President Donald Trump has warned the US economy would collapse if he were impeached, as legal chaos roiling the White House had experts saying his presidency is under threat.

Scott Morrison was sworn in as Australia’s seventh prime minister in 11 years yesterday after a stunning party revolt against Malcolm Turnbull, which the new leader admitted had left the government “bruised and battered”.

A retired Indianapolis fertility doctor who lied about using his own sperm to  impregnate dozens of women surrendered his medical licence on Thursday to a state board that also barred him from ever seeking its reinstatement.

All South Africans will be covered by the National Health Insurance (NHI) by 2025, which will begin in a phased approach from 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa told healthcare sector representatives yesterday.

A South Korean high court yesterday extended the lengthy prison sentence of former president Park Geun-hye for corruption in office.

South Africa accused US President Donald Trump of fuelling racial tensions yesterday after he said farmers were being forced off their land and many of them killed.

A Ugandan pop star-turned-lawmaker who opposes the longtime president was charged with treason in a civilian court yesterday, minutes after a military court dropped weapons charges.