Africa

Nine Ugandan soldiers serving as peacekeepers in Somalia have been jailed for running a fuel racket. The African Union (AU)...

Workers went on strike at various power plants ran by South African state-run power utility Eskom despite a court order...

“If Africa can’t yet send men to the moon, we should at least organize elections that are free and fair...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has landed in Lusaka, the Zambian capital, where he will lead a team of observers from the...

A suspected al-Shabab fighter held at a police station in western Kenya has grabbed a gun and shot at officers,...

Zimbabweans have decided to shut down the country in what might be the biggest popular protest in years in Robert...

Men who commit adultery could be sent to jail under a new law being debated by parliament in Cameroon. The...

No former African leader met the requirements for the 2015 version of the $5 million Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African...

The bodies of 34 migrants, including 20 children, who were abandoned by people smugglers while trying to reach neighbouring Algeria...

Gambia has banned all forms of music and dance in the country during this month of Ramadan. The Office of...

Dangote Cement workers in Zambia on Wednesday took to the streets of Ndola City where the factory is located to...

The 70-year-old Christian woman was stripped and paraded naked in the streets by a Muslim mob in a village in...

The ECOWAS Parliament has called on Liberia to reconsider aspects of its constitutional review where proposals have been made to...

The battle lines in South Africa's politics have been drawn after security guards forcibly removed members of the Economic Freedom Fighters...

A Kenyan man disrupted the mourning of murdered businessman Jacob Juma by clinging to the helicopter carrying the dead man’s...