Africa

Luanda: Angola's UNITA is willing to form a coalition government with other opposition parties after elections next Wednesday if the ruling MPLA party...

Freetown/Dakar: Rescue workers have recovered 270 bodies so far from a mudslide in the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown and the search...

Mogadishu: The one-time deputy leader of Somali militants Al Shabaab called on Tuesday for others to quit the group following his defection to the...

Nairobi: The Kenyan government is trying to shut down a rights group and a pro-democracy organisation who have raised queries over last week's disputed...

Johannesburg: Zimbabwe's first lady, Grace Mugabe, handed herself in to South African police on Tuesday and will be charged with assault after reports...

Freetown: Hundreds of people are believed to have been killed when a mudslide struck the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown on Monday, Vice...

Nairobi: Kenyans largely ignored an opposition call to go on strike on Monday, re-opening shops and returning to work as they shrugged off demands for...

Harare: Zimbabwe's Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a possible successor to 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe, is recovering in a South African...