Africa

Sudanese President, Omar al-Bashir, has handed leadership of the country's ruling party to his newly appointed deputy, the party said...

The son of Liberia’s former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was one of two central bank officials detained on Thursday after...

Low turnout led to the flop of a bill that would have guaranteed more Kenyan women in parliament as well...

The runner-up in Senegal's presidential election has accepted the outcome of the vote in which President Macky Sall has been...

Macky Sall has been re-elected president of Senegal for a second term, according to provisional results published on Thursday.

Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi has joined other SADC countries in calling for an end to sanctions on Zimbabwe.

Armed assailants attacked an Ebola treatment centre in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday, setting off a fire and...

A hurtling locomotive crashed, derailed and caught fire at Cairo's main train station on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people...

A report by the AFP news agency has found that a spreadsheet that has gone viral on social media in...

Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi is currently in Zimbabwe.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has congratulated his Nigerian counterpart Muhammadu Buhari after his successful re-election.

Muhammadu Buhari was re-elected Nigeria's president, results showed Tuesday, after a delayed poll that angered voters and led to claims...

Muhammadu Buhari was on Wednesday re-elected Nigeria's president, after a delayed poll that angered voters and raised political temperatures, leading...

Diamond-rich Botswana has offered to lend Zimbabwe nearly $600 million to help ease its economic crisis, Harare's state-owned daily The...

Thousands of students on Tuesday joined a growing protest movement in Algeria against ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid for a...

Nigeria's incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari extended his early election lead on Tuesday based on official results from a third of...

Nigeria's opposition parties have rejected the early released election results giving President Muhammadu Buhari the lead.

Gabon President Ali Bongo returned to his country late on Sunday for the second time since suffering a stroke in...

A week-long delay in holding Nigeria’s presidential election damaged public confidence in the process and probably reduced Saturday’s voter turnout,...

Attackers set fire to an Ebola treatment centre run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo...