Africa

United Nations: The United States proposed late Sunday that the United Nations Security Council authorise a 4,000-strong force to ensure peace in South...

Johannesburg: Oscar Pistorius was treated in hospital for wrist injuries on Saturday, a prison service spokesman said, adding the jailed South African track...

Cape Town: The African National Congress lost its stranglehold on South African politics as voter discontent over the struggling economy, a scarcity of jobs...

Pretoria: South Africa's ANC was on track for its worst electoral performance since the end of apartheid on Friday as voters vented anger about high...

Juba: South Sudan rejected on Friday accusations from the UN that its soldiers had raped and killed civilians during and after ethnically-charged fighting...

Johannesburg/Pretoria: South Africans voted in local elections on Wednesday that could see the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and its scandal-hit...

Geneva/Juba: Tens of thousands of people have fled a fresh outbreak of violence in South Sudan, reporting mass killings, looting and forced recruitment of...

Juba: At least nine people were killed in South Sudan over the weekend in renewed clashes between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and those of his...

Mogadishu: Militants set off two car bombs outside a police base in Somalia's capital before gunmen stormed inside on Sunday, leaving at least 10 people...

United Nations: The United Nations Security Council extended a peacekeeping mission in South Sudan on Friday until August 12 as the United States warned...