KINSHASA – The UN Security Council has backed a resolution calling for sanctions against leaders of rebels in the Democratic Republic of…
FREETOWN – Polls have opened in Sierra Leone in its third general election since the 1991-2002 civil war, which killed more than…
BANGUI – The president of Central African Republic is reported to have ordered the detention of his own son for refusing to…
HARARE – The first banknotes featuring the face of Nelson Mandela have gone into circulation in South Africa. They are the first…
BLANTYRE – Malawi suspended laws against same-sex relationships on Monday and ordered police not to arrest gays pending a decision on whether…
LAGOS – Dozens of young men have been shot dead in Nigeria by the military in Maiduguri, residents in the north-eastern city…
HARARE – South Africans should stop calling the ANC corrupt because that was simply not true, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday….
JOHANNESBURG – Police officers have been implicated in the Johannesburg prison truck explosion in which three people died and 15 were injured,…
ZAMFARA – Gunmen have killed 20 people, including a traditional leader, in an attack on a village in northern Nigeria’s Zamfara state,…
JOHANNESBURG – South African police fired rubber bullets and teargas on yesterday at striking Amplats miners who were protesting against a union-brokered…
