Comair Limited, operator of low-cost airline kulula.com and the British Airways franchise in South Africa, is again expanding its African network, and will soon be offering five return flights a week between Johannesburg and Dar es Salaam.

United States President Barack Obama has showered praise on South Africa’s recent success in hosting the FIFA World Cup.

Tragic as it is, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is good news for Africa – increasingly the new frontier for oil and gas exploration worldwide.

Ghana's national soccer team won a $20,000 cash bonus per player on Tuesday and were hailed moral victors by former U.N. chief and countryman Kofi Annan after losing out on a World Cup semi-final place.

Zimbabwe's first private daily newspaper hit the streets on Friday to break a state monopoly established years ago after President Robert Mugabe's government banned a pro-opposition newspaper over a registration dispute.

Today, South Africa joins the continent in celebrating, Africa Day, a day to reflect on the proud achievements for the African continent and its infinite possibilities.

Time Magazine recently released their list of the world's most influential people in 2010. Among the laureates are seven Africans who stand alongside the likes of Barack Obama and Steve Jobs as global change-makers. From activists to sports stars, inventors to big-business leaders, African born heroes and heroines are leaving their mark on the world.

The list includes South African born Elon Musk and Neill Blomkamp, Graça Machel from Mozambique, Didier Drogba, Valentin Abe and Tidjane Thiam from Côte d'Ivoire and Matt Berg, who grew up in Senegal.

Elon Musk rose to prominence as co-founder of PayPal. One of his current companies, SpaceX, develops and manufactures space launch vehicles. He also helped to create Solar City, the largest provider of solar-power systems in the US and he designed the Tesla, one of the first electric cars of the modern era.

South African-born director Neill Blomkamp made the list on account of the widespread success of his first feature film, District 9.

South African airports' runways are "generally" in a good state and compliant with International Civil Aviation Organisation requirements, the SA Civil Aviation Authority (Sacaa) said on Monday.

President Jacob Zuma is among the delegates participating in the three-day World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa that started in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on Wednesday morning.

Swaziland’s Thuli Brilliance Makama is one of six recipients of this year’s prestigious Goldman Prize for outstanding environmental work.

A South African university is training South Sudan government leaders in international law, security and other affairs of state as the region prepares for a 2011 independence referendum, university officials said.

President Jacob Zuma, chosen as Africa's finest, had the prestigious African President of the Year award 2009 bestowed on him on Tuesday.

Three African trade blocs that have agreed to form a free trade area covering more than half a billion people created a long overdue roadmap on Monday.

Gwede Mantashe, secretary general of the ANC, said President Jacob Zuma would be vocal about problems in Zimbabwe when he visits Harare this week, a reversal of the quiet diplomacy practiced by former South African president Thabo Mbeki.

Thirteen years after it opened for signature, the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty has finally come into force, the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) said on Wednesday.

The good news for Africa in these tough times is that the continent is riding out the global tempest better than it did in previous – and, be it noted, lesser – downturns.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to travel to Africa next week on a seven-nation tour aimed at highlighting the Obama administration's commitment to the continent.

President Barack Obama addressed parliament in Ghana's capitol of Accra on Saturday, in a speech that marked his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa as the leader of the United States.

Posters of Barack Obama festooned the streets of the Ghana capital on Thursday ahead of the first visit to sub-Saharan Africa by the first black US president.

Obama will go from the Group of Eight summit in Italy on Friday to press his message that conflict-tainted Africa needs good governance and economic progress.

His aides said the president wants to stress the interconnection between Africa and the rest of the world in the 21st century.

Africans have been invited to send a text message to US President Barack Obama in advance of his visit to Ghana on Friday and Saturday.

Google on Monday unveiled a new service designed to provide information via SMS text message to mobile phone users in Africa, where cell phones are prevalent but Internet penetration is low.

The Africa Competitiveness Report 2009, published by the World Economic Forum (WEF), has revealed the continent's top innovators - Kenya, South Africa and Tunisia. The report was launched just before the WEF on Africa, held in Cape Town from 10 to 12 June.

The Schwab Foundation has recognised three new social entrepreneurs with significant impact in Africa as winners of the Africa Regional Social Entrepreneurs Award for 2009.

Entrepreneurs from both Egypt and South Africa have been invited to join a global network of high-impact entrepreneurs, at an Endeavor International Selection Panel (ISP) in New Delhi, India.

Pope Benedict XVI was set Tuesday to leave for a weeklong trip to Africa, his first as pontiff to the world's poorest continent, with stops in Cameroon and Angola.

Benedict said Sunday he wanted to wrap his arms around the entire continent, with "its painful wounds, its enormous potential and hopes." He also intends to "confirm the faith of Catholics, encourage Christians in their ecumenical engagement and transmit to all the announcement of peace given to the Church by Christ resurrected," he said during his Sunday Angelus blessing.

The pope's two destinations were selected for their pan-African and international dimensions, respectively.