Africa

Juba: South Sudan's government and rebels said on Wednesday a deal had been reached to let rebel leader Riek Machar return to the capital to form a...

Lusaka: Hundreds of people hurled stones at police and looted dozens of foreign-owned shops in different townships in Lusaka on Tuesday, police said, the...

Bahir Dar (Ethiopia): Plans for a new African counter-terrorism force to support vulnerable UN peacekeepers in Mali, where militant groups are stepping up...

Pretoria: Disgraced Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius will be sentenced in June for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, after his...

Johannesburg: A South African lion called "Sylvester" that twice broke out of his reserve - probably to escape threatening older males - will be...

Nairobi: Boko Haram child suicide bombings have surged 11-fold in West Africa over the last year, with children as young as 8, mostly girls, detonating...

El Fasher (Sudan): Darfuris began voting on Monday in a referendum on whether to reunite the states of their arid western region into one entity, a poll...

Mogadishu: A car bomb at local government headquarters in Mogadishu killed five people and wounded five, an official said, in an attack claimed by Somali...

N'Djamena: Chad voted in a presidential election on Sunday at which incumbent Idriss Deby is running for a fifth term in office arguing that only his...

Cape Town: South African President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday survived an impeachment vote in parliament launched after the constitutional court ruled he had...