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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 ...

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.

African President Cyril Ramaphosa held talks with South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit in Tshwane on Wednesday, ...

There had been fears the patient could be Kenya’s second case after a citizen died of ⁠the virus in Nairobi on Tuesday.

South African judge and human rights lawyer on called on people to stand together in the defence of the rule of law.