Africa

Oscar Pistorius arrived on Monday at a state psychiatric hospital in Pretoria for the first day of a mental health evaluation ordered last week...

Jacob Zuma has been sworn in as President of the Republic of South Africa for the second term in office. Chief Justice, Mogoeng Mogoeng, swore...

Hlanganani Gumbi, a 24-year-old university drop-out, has no regrets about having swopped his textbooks for a risky career in politics. He was sworn in yesterday...

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Locally-owned African seed companies participating in a program to offer high-yield crop varieties to smallholder farmers across the continent have collectively become the largest...

Africa’s rich natural resources offer a unique opportunity for a breakthrough in improving the lives of Africa’s citizens, says a major new report launched...

Lucy Mbugua was convicted of three offences of dishonestly claiming taxpayers' cash while having no right to be in Britain. But unbelievably, after being charged...

Scores of girls and young women kidnapped from a school in Nigeria are being forced to marry their Islamic extremist abductors, a civic organization...

The bill, which allows men to marry a second or third woman without their first wife's consent, has received backlash from various women's groups Kenyan...