Africa News

A court Wednesday begun handing down verdicts in Mozambique's biggest corruption scandal, in which the government unleashed a financial earthquake...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has told a probe into a burglary scandal enmeshing him that $580,000 in cash stolen...

Angolan tycoon Isabel dos Santos says she is the victim of "political persecution" engineered by President Joao Lourenco, her father's...

The release from prison of the far-right killer of South African anti-apartheid hero Chris Hani hung in the balance on...

Eighteen people go on trial in Ivory Coast on Wednesday accused of involvement in one of West Africa's bloodiest jihadists...

The US government on Tuesday expressed "serious doubts" about the legitimacy of the re-election, officially by a landslide, of Equatorial...

The Zambezi River Authority has announced that the electricity crisis in Zimbabwe is likely to prolong following an increase in...

The grave of anti-apartheid hero Chris Hani has been vandalized, days after a South African court ordered the far-right gunman...

The US Justice Department announced charges Monday against three men who allegedly helped fund separatist fighters in Cameroon and supported...

Lawyers in Chad have vowed to stop work during a mass trial, due to start Tuesday, of more than four...

The Kenya Times has learnt that some six artefacts looted by British troops 125 years ago from Nigeria, then known...

A ceasefire between government troops and M23 rebels appeared to be holding for a third day on Monday in the...

The speaker of Tunisia's dissolved parliament appeared on Monday before a judge investigating accusations his party helped Tunisian jihadists travel...

A court in the Comoros on Monday handed down a life sentence for high treason to ex-president Ahmed Abdallah Sambi,...

At least four people were killed in an ongoing attack by Al-Shabaab militants who laid siege to a popular hotel...

A landslide in Cameroon's capital Yaounde killed at least eleven people attending a funeral on Sunday, a local official told...

Covid-19 pandemic and the global economic crisis, it is emerging, has led to an increase in cybercrimes in sub-Saharan Africa, investigators...

The frontlines between government troops and M23 rebels remained calm in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo on...

Confirmed for a sixth term as president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has ruled oil-rich Equatorial Guinea since August 1979, overseeing...

Information coming from one state news agency in Algeria indicates that a court there has sentenced 49 people to death...

Nearly half of Sudan’s 18 states have registered cases of dengue fever with more than 1,400 people being diagnosed with...

Third World countries are hopeful that they will secure more power over global tax affairs when the United Nations votes later...

Ivory Coast and Ghana, the world's two biggest cocoa producers, said Monday there had been progress towards resolving a tug-of-war...

Equatorial Guinea's iron-fisted veteran ruler Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has taken the lead in the west African country's presidential race,...

Africa’s most populous city Lagos is experiencing a storage problem following a sharp rise in activities at its shipping terminals....

According to a study by Demographic Health Survey (DHS), up to 85% of all documented cases of gender-based violence (GBV)...

US climate envoy John Kerry urged Pacific Island states on Thursday to join global efforts to cut methane emissions in...

Sitting next to a patient with depression on a garden bench in Zimbabwe's capital Harare, 70-year-old Shery Ziwakayi speaks gently,...

The leaders of Chad's main opposition groups said on Wednesday that they had been forced into hiding over fears for...

As Ugandan farmer Bonaventura Senyonga prepares to bury his grandson, age-old traditions are forgotten, and fear hangs in the air...