The Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID has put more than 8,000 health workers in South Africa’s national HIV program out of work.

President Donald Trump's senior adviser for Africa said on Thursday he spoke with the presidents of Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo about a draft peace deal this week, as Washington seeks to end a decades-long conflict in the region.

But St Francis Xavier Chapel, which has a strong claim to be the oldest surviving Catholic church in sub-Saharan Africa, faces a new threat today. A three-storey building belonging to a Chinese-owned fishing company is under construction on a previously empty plot next door.

PRETORIA (Reuters) -South Africa's Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Thursday that the government had not secured any new funding yet for HIV after the U.S. cut aid, and denied reports that its HIV programme was badly affected.

U.S. envoys in Africa will be rated on commercial deals struck, not aid spent, a senior State Department official said, touting it as the new strategy for U.S. support on the continent.

A Tennessee pastor is crediting a "miracle" from God after South Africa police rescued him from a days-long kidnapping. The suspects were demanding a ransom of 5 million Rand.

A state-owned South African bank that finances farmers is in talks with funders to raise as much as $1 billion as it recovers from a default five years ago.

Two Iowa resettlement agencies are helping White South African families recently classified by the Trump administration as refugees find new ground.

Edmonton city council's executive committee debated the future of the Africa Centre's Multicultural Community Centre on Wednesday.