Africa

United Nations: The United States proposed on Friday that the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) blacklist South Sudan opposition figure Riek Machar,...

Nairobi: Kenya said on Wednesday it had to agreed delay the closure of a teeming Somali refugee camp that it sees as a security risk, after international...

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa's main opposition party filed a criminal complaint on Tuesday accusing President Jacob Zuma of corruption after a report this...

JOHANNESBURG: South African Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius has been moved to a prison better suited to his rehabilitation while serving a six...

DAKAR: A 38-year-old British man set out on Sunday on a 2,000 mile (3,200 km) swim from Senegal to Brazil, seeking to become the first person to make it...

Harare: A Zimbabwean court has thrown out charges against a local hunter accused of failing to stop the killing of the country's most prized lion by an...

JOHANNESBURG: A far-left South African politician who wants to nationalise banks, mines and land said on Monday he would ask the Constitutional Court to...

Lagos: One of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by militant group Boko Haram from their school in northeast Nigeria's Chibok in 2014 has been found by...

Johannesburg: In his first public appearance since investigators documented signs of government corruption, South African President Jacob Zuma told...

Geneva: Famine may be looming in South Sudan, where people are fleeing fighting and leaving their crops to rot in the fields, the World Food Programme (WFP)...