JOHANNESBURG – Former tennis Grand Slam champion Bob Hewitt has been found guilty by a South African court of raping underage girls….
FREETOWN – Sierra Leone’s Vice-President Samuel Sam-Sumana has been sacked for seeking political asylum in a foreign embassy, the president’s office has…
KINSHASA – Parties in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have warned president Joseph Kabila that he would weaken the country’s democracy…
ABIDJAN — A court in Ivory Coast on Tuesday sentenced former first lady Simone Gbagbo to a 20-year prison term on charges…
LUSAKA – Officials in Zambia said further tests have shown that malaria was not the cause the president’s collapse during a public…
MASERU – Lesotho’s Prime Minister Thomas Thabane has won a parliamentary election with a narrow majority that prevents him from governing alone,…
JOHANNESBURG – The proceeds of elephant and rhino poaching in Africa are currently equivalent to as much as $380 million, the United…
WINDHOEK – The outgoing Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba has won the world’s most valuable individual award, the Mo Ibrahim prize for African…
KAMPALA – Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s changes to his cabinet at the weekend rewarded close allies and dismissed potential opponents, signaling his…
PRETORIA – Lawyers for jailed South African Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius have launched a legal bid to prevent prosecutors from appealing against…
