Africa

Johannesburg: South Africa's elite Hawks police unit denied on Sunday a report that an investigation involving Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, which...

Seoul: Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said his country would halt security and military cooperation with North Korea, a South Korean official said...

Kampala: Five men were jailed for life in Uganda on Friday for their role in two Al Shabaab bombings that killed 76 people among crowds watching the World...

Nairobi: A Kenyan court charged nine men on Tuesday for their role in a protest against an electoral oversight body, a lawyer said, after the fourth...

Nairobi: Kenyan police fired tear gas and water cannon on Monday to disperse hundreds of people protesting at alleged bias in the country's electoral...

Johannesburg: South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan is not being investigated for espionage over his part in establishing a surveillance unit...

Diffa (Niger): When Boko Haram attacked Falmaya Baba Gama's village last year in northeast Nigeria, executing a dozen men and burning down the market,...

Cairo: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi urged the media on Friday not to speculate about the cause of an EgyptAir plane crash which killed all 66...

Kruger National Park(South Africa): South Africa's government is planning to impose limits on farm sizes to free up parcels of land to hand over to...

Paris/Cairo: The EgyptAir jet which crashed in the Mediterranean on Thursday sent a series of warnings indicating that smoke had been detected on board,...