Mauritania's prime minister was reappointed on Friday, just hours after he had resigned over a scathing report into fires at two main electricity substations in the capital Nouakchott. President ...

This follows the death in Nairobi on Monday of a Kenyan man who had travelled home from DR Congo through Uganda.

His call comes months after youth-led protests highlighted frustrations and expectations around social and economic opportunities.

This follows two-days of violent anti-foreigner riots in the cities of Durban and Johannesburg, that come weeks before local government elections.

The carrier temporarily suspended its services to Mekelle on 23 September, citing the 'current situation' in the Tigray region.

Guinea-Bissau’s December elections are now in doubt and Senegal is urging the country’s military rulers to lift restrictions ...

Egyptian prosecutors accused six journalists from an independent fact-checking platform on Wednesday of terrorism-related ...

Protests in Soweto and Durban opposed the Constitutional Court’s decision to remove procedural barriers to seeking asylum. They followed months of anti-immigrant tensions ...

The November 2022 Pretoria agreement ended the previous war between Ethiopia’s federal government and the Tigray People’s ...

From defending Nelson Mandela to leading a panel that found genocide in Gaza, South African-born jurist Navi Pillay has won the Nobel Peace Prize for championing international law.

Jacob Zuma’s hospitalisation has raised questions about his participation in upcoming uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party campaign events ahead of South Africa’s local government elections.

Tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea are escalating with fears of a new regional war growing. Ethiopian drones have reportedly struck Eritrean forces near Adigrat, a city in northern Tigray, ...