Africa

If the Oscars or Golden Globes ever desire an African venue for their star-studded shows, they won’t be choosing Swaziland now that police have...

Hundreds of students at Stellenbosch University in South Africa have protested against the Afrikaans language being favoured at their school, alleging that it promotes...

As she continues to be plagued by illness and corruption investigations, former Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke is making plans to return to...

Street vendors in Zimbas capital Harare have largely defied a government ultimatum to leave the city streets by Friday or be forcibly evicted. Thousands of...

(Reuters) - Burkina Faso's army cleared thousands of protesters from the capital and opened fire at state TV headquarters on Sunday, killing one person,...

Barry and June Steenkamp believe that the decision not to release Oscar Pistorius into correctional supervision on what would have been their daughter’s 32nd...

Burundi's president has sacked three cabinet ministers, as protests resumed after last week's failed coup. A spokesman for the president told the BBC that President...

Last December, an Al Jazeera network investigation examined shocking claims that the government of Kenya has been running secret police death squads, tasked with...

A Nairobi court yesterday ordered five Kenyans and a Tanzanian to be detained for 30 days while police investigate possible connections to last week’s...