Ebola survivors, including frontline healthcare workers, have walked free from a treatment centre in Beni, eastern DRC, celebrating their recovery as the country battles a deadly outbreak.
Survivors embraced medical staff and received discharge certificates outside the centre.
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has embarked on a capacity-building programme for border officials at various points of entry across the region on the Tripartite Simplified Trade Regime.
Recovery teams battled swampy terrain in Igbokoda on Tuesday as they searched for the wreckage and victims of a Nigerian Air Force ATR-42 that crashed a day earlier, killing all 25 people on board.
Around 250 orphaned and vulnerable children in eastern DRC received school supplies and Ebola protection support on Monday, as local group Samaritan Assistance for Vulnerable People (SAV) sought to help children affected by years of conflict.
The SADC Executive Secretary, Elias Magosi, has hailed the landmark Memorandum of Understanding signed between the AU, regional economic communities and mechanisms.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on South African men to take a more active role in confronting gender-based violence, as the country grapples with a spate of killings, with 12 women slain in just two months.
Namibia was Botswana's second best main supplier of imports in August after South Africa, as Botswana sourced most of its goods and services within the Southern African Customs Union region.
Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama said his government rejected a proposed US health compact "in record time", calling some of its conditions "humiliating" and raising concerns over medical data and Ghana's control over imported health products.
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has expressed confidence following her participation in the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Forty years after the UN recognised development as a human right, millions remain locked out of economic and social progress.
