Politics

Former cabinet minister Paul Otuoma will fly the ODM flag in the Busia governor race in the August 9 general...

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday blasted vigilante groups for harassing migrants in South Africa, likening their behaviour to strategies adopted...

Former Jubilee Party Secretary General Raphael Tuju has been appointed as the Executive Director of the Azimio Secretariat.  Azimio Presidential...

The recent party nomination of deputy president William Samoei Ruto as a presidential candidate sets the stage for a tight...

The speaker of Tunisia's parliament on Thursday rejected President Kais Saied's dissolution of the assembly the previous day. "We consider...

More than 2,000 Tunisians rallied on Sunday, the country's independence day, against President Kais Saied and a project he launched...

Somalia has again pushed back the deadline for completing lower house elections, delaying until March 31 a process that is...

At least one Zimbabwean opposition activist was killed and 17 others were hospitalized on Sunday after violence broke out during...

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday said his party had joined an opposition coalition ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections...

At 47, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the son of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, has spent half his life hitting out at...

An award-winning Ugandan author who fled the country after being charged with insulting President Yoweri Museveni and his son has...

The International Monetary Fund could stop its program in Somalia in three months if long-postponed national elections encounter fresh delays,...

Mali's lawmakers on Monday approved a plan allowing the military junta to rule for up to five years, AFP journalists...

In the 60 years since Algeria won independence from France, it has gone through multiple crises with its former occupier,...

The leader of Tanzania's main opposition party will stand trial for terrorism, a high court judge ruled Friday, in a...

Every day at the family grocery stall in a Tunis market, Bilel Jani sees the reality of a biting economic...

Burkina Faso strongman Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was inaugurated as president on Wednesday, just over three weeks after he led...

The parliament of war-torn Libya on Thursday appointed a former interior minister as prime minister, a challenge to interim premier...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers a State of the Nation address on Thursday facing demands for a master plan...

Burkina Faso's new military junta held talks Tuesday with the Sahel country's political party chiefs, many of whom said they...

Tanzania's parliament elected a new speaker on Tuesday following the resignation of her predecessor in a public feud with the...

South African ex-president Jacob Zuma was back in court on Monday in a fresh bid to replace the chief prosecutor...

Chad's junta announced Thursday that a national forum designed to chart the country's future after it seized power last year...

Libya's parliament, in a push to replace interim Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah, on Tuesday published criteria governing candidates for the...

Libya's interim Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah on Sunday called for a constitution to be established before holding delayed presidential and...

Senegal will vote for mayors and local representatives on Sunday in the first election since last year's riots, in a...

Senior US diplomats met with pro-democracy activists Wednesday in Sudan as part of talks to discuss the way forward after...

Libya's parliamentary speaker Aguila Saleh said Tuesday that by the end of the month the committee responsible for overseeing elections...

Freedoms are imperiled in Tunisia after the violent suppression of protests against President Kais Saied last week, rights groups warned...

Kenya's highest court began Tuesday weighing a legal bid to revive government plans to shake up the country's political system,...