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Embattled South African President Cyril Ramaphosa faces a decisive week as a scandal hangs over his future, with an impeachment...

An intricately detailed balcony, a coat of fresh paint and large bay windows opening onto the street: this house, in...

In the township of Soweto, where South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa grew up and where he visited last year promising...

The body of a Zambian student who died while fighting in Ukraine after he was recruited in a Russian jail...

France's Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera wore a sweater with rainbow-colored sleeves to France's World Cup quarter-final in Qatar on Saturday...

The Burkina Faso government has announced plans to raise 152 million euros for a "fund to support the war" against...

In a displacement camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Eric, Samuel, Tuyisenge and Florence recounted walking for miles to...

Famous Congolese musician Tshala Muana has died. Reports indicate that Muana breathed his last on Saturday morning, December, 10. News...

The ravaging drought in Somalia, the worst in four decades, is expected to worsen following the fifth failed rainy season....

Sudan's military and civilian leaders signed Monday an initial deal aimed at ending a deep crisis that has gripped the...

West African leaders agreed on Sunday to create a regional force to intervene against jihadism and in the event of...

Ghana offered investors a domestic debt swap on Monday to ease a crunch in payments as the government negotiates an...

Germany is becoming a key destination for disillusioned young Tunisians despite a language barrier and the North African nation's long...

Egypt is using the ancient grandeur of its pyramids as a backdrop for modern pop concerts and fashion shows, hoping...

Tunisia's powerful UGTT trade union chief took aim Saturday at legislative elections due later this month, claiming they serve no...

The UN's peacekeeping mission in DR Congo led calls Friday for an investigation after the government said fifty villagers had...

A student facing a defamation case for a tweet about Nigeria's first lady had the charges against him dropped Friday,...

A court in Tanzania sentenced eleven people to death on Friday over the 2017 murder of renowned conservationist Wayne Lotter....

Berlin on Friday stripped a street and a square of German colonialists' names and dedicated them to African resistance figures,...

Pragmatic, wealthy and ambitious, Cyril Ramaphosa promised "a new dawn" for corruption-ridden South Africa when he became president. Today, five...

Raucous, expressive, and revolutionary: Algeria's Rai music took its place on the United Nations' list of intangible cultural heritage on...

Fighting with heavy weapons erupted between government forces and M23 insurgents in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, shaking...

Pope Francis will visit the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan early next year, a trip previously postponed due...

Swedish-Swiss engineering giant ABB, which helped construct a huge power plant near Johannesburg, will pay reparations to South Africa over...

One of Sao Tome's leading opposition figures says accusations that he sought to mount a coup in the tiny African...

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...