Africa

Pretoria: South African President Jacob Zuma failed on Friday in his appeal against a court ruling that corruption charges against him be reinstated,...

Pretoria: South Africa's capital was tense on Wednesday after residents torched buses and looted shops overnight, police said, in clashes sparked by the...

Pretoria: Protesters burned buses and barricaded roads in South Africa's capital on Tuesday in an escalating dispute over the ruling party's mayoral...

Kinshasa: Democratic Republic of Congo declared a yellow fever epidemic in three provinces including the capital Kinshasa on Monday after confirming 67...

Lagos: Nigeria's naira slumped 30 percent against the dollar on Monday after the central bank removed its currency peg to alleviate chronic foreign...

Pretoria: Oscar Pistorius is "a broken man" who should not be jailed, a psychologist told a court sentencing the South African Paralympic gold...

Geneva: U.N. human rights investigators accused Eritrean leaders on Wednesday of crimes against humanity including torture, rape, murder and enslaving...

Nairobi: At least one person was shot dead at a protest against Kenya's election body in the western city of Kisumu on Monday and others wounded,...

Niamey: Thirty soldiers from Niger and two from Nigeria were killed in a Boko Haram attack by "hundreds of assailants" on Friday on the...

Mogadishu: Somali authorities said on Thursday at least 16 people were killed and 55 wounded in a car bomb and gun attack on a hotel in the centre of...