Africa

Pretoria: Speaker of South Africa's National Assembly Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula resigned Wednesday, a day after losing a court bid that would block her arrest...

Dakar: Senegal's highest judicial authority, the Constitutional Council, has officially affirmed the triumph of opposition leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye in...

A bus carrying worshippers from Botswana has plunged off a bridge in South Africa, killing 45 people on board.

Dakar: Senegalese opposition candidate and tax inspector Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Monday appeared to be reaching victory in Senegal's presidential...

Bissau: Since Umaro Sissoco Embalo became president of Guinea-Bissau three years ago, he has gradually led the West African country into a grave political...

Dakar: Senegal's eligible voters are heading to the polls to elect a new president, after the conclusion of incumbent President Macky Sall's second...

Abuja: Nearly 150 kidnapped schoolchildren were rescued in northern Nigeria on Sunday after they were abducted two weeks ago.The mass kidnapping of 287...

Kampala: Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has appointed his son as the military's top commander in a controversial decision.Many in the country believe...

Khartoum: The United Nations has warned that Sudan is suffering from one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent history after nearly a year of war, Al...

Abuja: An armed gang kidnapped at least 87 people from a village in Nigeria's Kaduna state, police said on Monday.The hostages — among which are both...