Africa

Juba: South Sudan's new vice president, Taban Deng Gai, poured scorn on his predecessor Riek Machar and suggested he go into exile, deepening a rift at...

Mogadishu: Suicide bombers killed at least 13 people at the gates of the African Union's main peacekeeping base in the Somali capital on Tuesday, police...

Nairobi: President Barack Obama's half-brother, Malik Obama, says he will vote for Republican nominee Donald Trump in the US election in November...

Harare: Zimbabwe's government denounced leading independence war veterans as traitors on Saturday for an unprecedented attack on ageing President Robert...

Juba: A rift appeared in one of South Sudan's two main rival groups on Friday, raising the prospect of further turmoil after months of fighting, as...

Kigali: Zimbabwe's finance minister blamed international sanctions on Sunday for a cash crunch that has forced the government to delay wages to soldiers...

Juba: South Sudan's vice president has withdrawn with his troops to outside of Juba but is not planning for war, his spokesman said on Wednesday, as a...

Bujumbura: A Burundian member of the East African Legislative Assembly was shot dead on Wednesday in what Rwanda's foreign minister called an...

Dadaab (Kenya): Somali schoolgirls risk losing out on education and becoming child brides if they are forced to leave the world's largest refugee camp...

Juba: People emerged from makeshift shelters in South Sudan's capital on Tuesday after a ceasefire silenced days of heavy fighting that has destabilised...