Four tanks were seen heading towards the Zimbabwe capital Harare on Tuesday, witnesses said, a day after the head of the armed forces said he was prepared to "step in" to end a purge of supporters of ousted vice-president...
South Africa's speed sensation Caster Semenya, will again attempt the 800 metres and 1500m double at next year’s Commonwealth Games before setting her sights on a world record.
The 26-year-old won gold in the shorter distance and a surprise bronze...
The youth wing of Zimbabwe’s ruling party accused the military chief on Tuesday of subverting the constitution for threatening to intervene after President Robert Mugabe plunged the country into political crisis by sacking his vice president last week.
Vice President...
Two international tourists have been trampled to death in Zambia' s southern city of Livingstone, the police said on Sunday.
The incident happened on Saturday at a lodge located near a national park, and the deceased were a 57-year-old woman...
At least four makeshift bombs exploded in the main city of Cameroon's English-speaking region overnight, the AFP news agency reports, quoting security sources.
"Four home-made bombs exploded in Bamenda, one at 21:00 and the three others at 3:00 am," the...
Polling stations have opened in the self-proclaimed republic of Somaliland for the third presidential election since 2003.
A VOA Somali reporter in Hargeisa, Barkhad Kariye, says he saw long lines, with some people waiting since 3:00 a.m.
“They wanted to be...
The U.N. launched a new round of negotiations in September to unite a country that splintered along political, ideological and tribal lines during and after the 2011 NATO-backed uprising that unseated Gaddafi.
Western officials hope the talks will pave the...
Zimbabwe's ruling party Zanu-PF has expelled sacked Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa from the party, the AFP news agency reports.
Party spokesman Simon Khaya Moyo said that Mr Mnangagwa "was lacking supreme discipline".
He added that the decision to remove Mr Mnangagwa was...
Wearing a pastel-colored dress embroidered with a tatty trim and speaking almost in a whisper, 17-year-old Chancelle looks like she should be in school.
But, since the age of 15, she has instead been going into isolated huts or simply...
Morocco has successfully launched an earth observation satellite, dubbed "Mohammed VI-A, according to reports from local media in Morocco.
Dubbed "Mohammed VI-A," the satellite was launched from French Guiana Space Center at 0142 GMT, le360.ma news site said.
The three-axis stabilized...
Eritrea government has "categorically rejected’’ accusations that its troops fighting in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region killed hundreds of people...
