Africa

The senate has cancelled its planned visit to the South African parliament to protest against the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians. Ike Ekweremadu, deputy senate president, announced the decision of upper …

South African authorities have been asked to appear at the International Criminal Court on April 7 over the country’s failure to arrest Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir during a visit …

President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana said on Monday the country had run out of excuses for failing to end poverty and corruption, 60 years after it became the first in …

South Sudan’s incumbent president Salva Kiir’s government is facing underscoring mounting resistance from a disatisfied retired army general who quit his position last month and announced on Monday that he had formed …

No fewer than eight people were killed and 28 others injured in a stampede in Lusaka on Monday as thousands of poor people struggled to claim food handouts, said Zambian …

The Chairperson of the African Union (AU), President Alpha Conde of Guinea, on Friday initiated a phone call to President Muhammadu Buhari in London, to wish him good health and …

The family of Salome Karwah, a Liberian Ebola nurse named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” in 2014 are ready to sue a hospital whose staff they say were too …

President Jacob Zuma of South Africa will not suspend the head of the prosecution service for lying and then withdrawing corruption charges against Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, the presidency said …

Egypt’s top court of appeal has declared Hosni Mubarak “not guilty” of involvement in the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that ended his 30-year rule, the final ruling …

Kenyan soldiers killed 57 Islamist militants during a fight in southern Somalia on Wednesday, a military spokesman said. Kenyan troops under the African Union command used artillery and helicopter gunships …