Opinion

President Cyril Ramaphosa is in Washington DC for a high-stakes political face-off

Singing sweetly as she packed her bag to leave the rehab centre, Mariama Turay vowed never again to smoke kush, the fearsome drug that wrecked her marriage -- and countless lives in Sierra Leone.

Joe Biden's diagnosis with an aggressive form of prostate cancer has spurred some prominent conservatives to accuse the former president of a cover-up.

Suriname votes in parliamentary elections on Sunday that will determine who oversees efforts for the next five years to transform the fortunes of one of South America's poorest nations with giant oil reserves.