Africa

Juba: South Sudan's government has said it is ready to accept the deployment of a UN regional protection force at any time, after fighting in the...

Mogadishu: A suspected car bomb killed at least 10 people when it exploded at a police checkpoint next to a busy market in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on...

BAMAKO/GAO: Malians burned ballot boxes and protested against long-delayed local elections this weekend to fill posts left vacant in the north since...

United Nations: The United States proposed on Friday that the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) blacklist South Sudan opposition figure Riek Machar,...

Nairobi: Kenya said on Wednesday it had to agreed delay the closure of a teeming Somali refugee camp that it sees as a security risk, after international...

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa's main opposition party filed a criminal complaint on Tuesday accusing President Jacob Zuma of corruption after a report this...

JOHANNESBURG: South African Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius has been moved to a prison better suited to his rehabilitation while serving a six...

DAKAR: A 38-year-old British man set out on Sunday on a 2,000 mile (3,200 km) swim from Senegal to Brazil, seeking to become the first person to make it...

Harare: A Zimbabwean court has thrown out charges against a local hunter accused of failing to stop the killing of the country's most prized lion by an...

JOHANNESBURG: A far-left South African politician who wants to nationalise banks, mines and land said on Monday he would ask the Constitutional Court to...