Johannesburg: South Africa's top court on Friday ruled that parliament failed to hold embattled President Jacob Zuma accountable for using state funds to...
Johannesburg: South Africa's top court on Friday ruled that parliament failed to hold embattled President Jacob Zuma accountable for using state funds to...
MONROVIA: Backers of soccer star George Weah said on Thursday he was poised to declare victory in Liberia’s presidential election after their data...
Bamako: Three soldiers were killed in central Mali on Thursday by a mine blast as they hunted for suspected jihadist fighters, the army...
Libreville, "Here you're in the heart of precarious living," one of Gabon's first medical responders says in Kolo Ngoum, a grubby shanty suburb...
MONROVIA: Liberian election officials began tallying votes on Wednesday from Tuesday’s presidential election, as Liberians awaited results that should usher in the country’s...
Nairobi: The United States carried out an air strike on Christmas Eve against the Shabaab Islamist group that left 13 dead, according to...
Accra, Joseph Awuah-Darko sits on a stool at one of the world's largest electronic waste dumps, watching polystyrene and insulation cables burn on...
Kano, Nigeria: Gunmen have killed 10 people in attacks on two Christian-dominated villages in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna, a hotbed of...
Monrovia: Liberia, which elects a new president in a run-off on Tuesday, is an English-speaking nation in West Africa that still bears the...
Bizerte, Tunisia, In Tunisian high schools, the dress code is not uniform. Actually, it is: but only for girls. Boys can wear what...
Monrovia, Liberian presidential candidate George Weah's running mate Jewel Howard-Taylor began life in politics as first lady to former warlord leader Charles Taylor,...
Monrovia: Vice president since 2005, Joseph Boakai has campaigned for president as a natural transition candidate after helping to ensure peace prevailed in...
Harare: Zimbabwe's new President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Saturday named the former army chief who led a coup that ended Robert Mugabe's 37-year rule,...
Niamey, President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Niger late Friday for a morale-boosting visit to France's Barkhane anti-jihadist force and told troops the fight...
Soweto, South Africa: Cyril Ramaphosa's victory in the ANC leadership battle has sparked renewed hope among many in South Africa's Soweto township where...
OICHA, RD Congo: Jean-De-Dieu was working in the fields in his village of Mamoundioma one day in October when he heard the distant...
Warri, Nigeria, Abubakar Ya'u digs sand from vast, sweeping dunes and loads heavy hessian sacks of the fine, golden bounty onto the backs...
Johannesburg: Cyril Ramaphosa's long and eventful career has taken him from trade union activist to multi-millionaire and now to within touching distance of...