Africa

El Fasher (Sudan): Darfuris began voting on Monday in a referendum on whether to reunite the states of their arid western region into one entity, a poll...

Mogadishu: A car bomb at local government headquarters in Mogadishu killed five people and wounded five, an official said, in an attack claimed by Somali...

N'Djamena: Chad voted in a presidential election on Sunday at which incumbent Idriss Deby is running for a fifth term in office arguing that only his...

Cape Town: South African President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday survived an impeachment vote in parliament launched after the constitutional court ruled he had...

Washington: Two Libyans held for years at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been flown to Senegal for resettlement, the Pentagon said on...

Brazzaville: Gunbattles rocked the capital of the Congo Republic on Monday, shattering a relative calm that had followed President Denis Sassou...

Klerksdorp (South Africa): South Africa will decide this month whether to push to end a global ban on buying and selling rhino horn, a move that could...

Johannesburg: South Africa's parliament will debate on Tuesday a motion to impeach President Jacob Zuma, National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete said on...

Johannesburg: An anti-apartheid activist jailed alongside Nelson Mandela called on Jacob Zuma to step down, adding pressure on South Africa's president...

Nairobi: A new road and rail project cutting through a nature reserve on the outskirts of Nairobi threatens wildlife, livestock and people, conservationists...