Zimbabwe's president is blaming a group loyal to former first lady Grace Mugabe for a deadly explosion at one of his campaign rallies.
In a BBC interview Wednesday, President Emmerson Mnangagwa claimed that a group that sought to replace his...
A legal battle over a teenager in Sudan who killed her husband as he tried to rape her has shone a spotlight on widespread child marriage in the African nation, campaigners said.
Noura Hussein, 19, was sentenced to death in...
South Sudan’s president signed a peace agreement with rebels on Wednesday including a ceasefire to start in 72 hours, Sudan’s foreign minister said, but rebels rejected other parts of the deal.
The agreement, made in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, aims...
East Libyan officials said on Wednesday they would send oil revenue from areas under their control to a central bank based in the east, defying pressure to return recently recaptured ports to the internationally recognized state oil firm.
The comments...
Oscar award winning actress Lupita Nyong'o has been named among Hollywood 2019 Walk of Fame honorees. Lupita is among the 28 honorees list that has only three black actors.The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce announced the Walk of Fame Class...
A group of religious leaders have roped in former president Jacob Zuma to lead a prayer campaign "against crime as an enemy of the economy" and to help improve race relations between black and Indian people in the province.
Zuma...
Ethiopia on Tuesday welcomed the first delegation of top officials from longtime rival Eritrea for the first time in two decades for peace talks, with Ethiopia's prime minister declaring that the separation between the neighbors "is shattered down."
"We have...
Leaders of a Moroccan protest movement were sentenced to up to 20 years in prison late Tuesday over their roles in demonstrations that rocked the north of the country in 2016.
The figurehead of the Al-Hirak al-Shaabi, or "Popular Movement",...
Ten women who left their children at home in Morocco to earn money picking strawberries in southern Spain have said that they were lied to, exploited and even sexually harassed.
They told AFP how their seasonal jobs turned into a...
Rwanda is set to send an all-female formed police unit for deployment in South Sudan under the UN peacekeeping mission, the Rwandan police said Tuesday.
The contingent is the first female team to be sent on a foreign mission by...
