WITNESS: Rock-steady women build Africa's villas
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Siphiwe Sibeko, 35, is mostly a self taught photographer who was born and grew up in Soweto township, South Africa. After working for some leading South African newspapers as a senior photographer, he joined Reuters in 2005. Julien Pretot, 31, is a Paris-based sports reporter since 2001. Both paired up for the African Nations Cup in Ghana. In the following story, Julien describes the women construction workers he and Siphiew befriended as they passed them on their way to the Essipon stadium in S
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Mark Thatcher, in court over a coup plot, has built a new life amid the millionaires&#39; mansions of Constantia. Raymond Whitaker reports.
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Archeologists say they're 100 percent certain that the remains are those of a woman who was as mysterious in death as she was eccentric in life.
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Arts & entertainment: From the Republic of Congo to the drizzle of the South Bank comes a tropical villa for the people
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KAKUMA, Kenya -- They had learned how to buy bus tokens and clip coupons. Gotten hands-on training for lighting a gas stove and flushing a toilet. Taken a pop quiz on women's rights.
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One of the architects of Africa's home-grown plan for economic development criticises its lack of achievements.
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SOWETO, South Africa  - Seeing buses full of tourists looking for a glimpse of South African poverty, squatter camp resident Lawrence Rolomana decided to try to earn a share of the cash they were spending.
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For nearly 20 years, the women of Benin City, Nigeria, have been going to Italy to work in the sex trade.
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MTUBATUBA, South Africa  - Tryphina Ngwenya slides a pink condom over the magic wooden stick normally used to conjure up ancestral spirits, unleashing a ripple of laughter among her audience of traditional South African healers.
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When it comes to the advancement of women in the workplace, progress is almost never sudden. But often it is steady.
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Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai, who Wednesday became the first-ever African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, has worked for decades to protect Africa&#39;s dwindling forests.
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MORBI, India -- Meet the men and women building the new India. Chakubhai Khabhu, old and lean, smoking a thin, hand-rolled cigarette, stands on top of a pile of bricks his children have made with their hands. His daughter, Vanita, 20, tosses bricks to her brothers, two by two, in a seamless human chain. One of his sons' wives takes ...
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In a continent where men still dominate, Esther Passaris is an anomaly impossible to ignore -- and anyone who tries is likely to get an earful.
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By Rosli Zakaria; Elizabeth John; Jessica Lim  PARADISE islands, the honey pot that lures tourist dollars, have long made for idyllic holidays. But could too many visitors be trampling all over this dream? ROSLI ZAKARIA, ELIZABETH JOHN and JESSICA LIM find out.
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By FRANK BAJAK  BOGOTA, Colombia - She was a plainspoken but determined woman, those who knew her said, seeking justice for hundreds of fellow peasants whose lands were stolen by right-wing militias during a more than decade-long reign of terror.
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She was cited for her work as leader of the Green Belt Movement, which has planted more than 30 million trees across Africa. Professor Wangari is the seventh African to win the prize, worth $1.
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In the caves of South Africa's Cederberg mountains, an ancient people left a legacy of rock art that could teach modern man a valuable lesson or two about living in harmony with nature.