South Africa Travel News

TRIP: Students from Namibia and South Africa visit Poole Grammar and take part in their Sports Day.

Gen. David M. Rodriguez, U.S. Africa Command commander, responds to questions from a delegation of media representatives from Angola and Mozambique during a briefing at the command headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany.

When Uganda earlier this year signed an anti-homosexuality law criminalising same-sex relations, it lead Denmark to impose sanctions and rearrange development aid to the African nation.

Most visitors to Africa come for the lions, elephants, and rhinos. But for the tourists who helicoptered into this somewhat remote region of central Kenya last month, wild dogs topped their list.

The Earth sings every day, with an electric chorus. With the right tuning, radios can eavesdrop on this sizzling symphony of crackles, pops and whistles - the melody of millions of lightning bolts.

Twenty-five young African professionals studying on fellowship at the U of M, Rep. Keith Ellison at center The University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs this summer hosted 25 young African professionals in its first year as part of the Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders.

There has been a lot of attention on air travel in recent months. First it was the Malaysia airlines plane that disappeared, and still hasn't been found.

Our reviewer Amy McLean certainly enjoyed those Summer Nights when she caught the Newcastle Musical Theatre Company's version of Grease at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle Cheryl's new husband Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini is reported to have spent thousands on roses for their second wedding bash in London South Shields student Jack Burden, 18, died ... (more)

Over a perfectly lovely cup of Sri Lankan tea in the literate saloon of their homey sailboat, Rainbow Gypsy, Cherry and Alec Yarrow recounted their voyage starting in Durban, South Africa that has landed them in Seward.

Migrants sit in their boat during a rescue operation by Italian navy ship Grecale off the coast of Sicily, in this handout picture by the Italian Marina Militare June 29, 2014.

An Air Algerie flight from Burkina Faso to Algiers disappeared from radar early Thursday, the official Algerian news agency said.

Meriam Ibrahim, from Sudan, right, holds her baby girl Maya, accompanied by Italian deputy Foreign Miinister Lapo Pistelli, holding her son Martin, followed by Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini, second from right, Italian Premier Matteo Renzi, second from left, and his wife Agnese Landini, after landing from Khartoum, at Ciampino's ... (more)

A commercial jetliner carrying 116 people disappeared over west Africa after losing contact with air traffic controllers, a Spanish charter company said Thursday.

Demand for international tourism remained strong in the first four months of 2014; international tourist arrivals worldwide grew by 5%, the same rate as during the full year 2013.

A doctor who has played a key role in fighting the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone is infected with the disease, according to that country's Ministry of Health.

Poland's flagship airlines LOT has been chosen as the Best Airline for Europe, Middle East and Africa by the readers of Frequent Business Traveler, an online publication written for and by the world's most experienced international travelers.

Over the past two decades, South Africa has aimed to shake off the stigma of apartheid and the isolation that came with it.

FIFA says its security director Ralf Mutschke will travel to Sierra Leone to help the case and an education program to tackle match-fixing.

The Deer Creek Middle School science teacher said he is compelled to serve, an ambition that has taken him around the world.

We were greeted at the Victoria Falls Hotel by staff bearing mint-scented wet cloths and cold juice drinks.