Cape Town's Mayor Patricia De Lille has resigned after almost a year of public squabbling with her own Democratic Alliance (DA) party.She will no longer face a disciplinary hearing in public and the DA has dropped all charges against...
Exiled DR Congo opposition leader Moise Katumbi, who is seeking to return to contest elections, will be refused entry to the country, Ghislain Robert Lubara, mayor of his former stronghold of Lubumbashi, said Thursday.The former governor of the mineral-rich...
Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita will face opposition figure Soumaila Cisse in a run-off vote on August 12 after neither secured more than 50 percent in the first round of the presidential election, an official said late Thursday.In Sunday's...
Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Nelson Chamisa on Friday said the country’s electoral commission should release “proper and verified” results of the first national election since Robert Mugabe left office.The commission earlier declared President Emmerson Mnangagwa the winner of the...
Three Russian journalists were investigating Russian military contractors and mining industries in Central African Republic when they were killed there, their editor said Wednesday.
The reporters were ambushed and killed outside the town of Sibut late Monday, according to local...
The former Ethiopian dictator Colonel Mengistu Hailemariam has met with Ethiopia’s former Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare on Wednesday.
The surprise meeting between Hailemariam, who was Ethiopia’s Prime Minister until he resigned in April 2018, and Mengistu...
A representative for a rebel group says the Republic of Congo has removed arrest warrants for Frederic Bintsamou and two of his lieutenants.
Philippe Ane said Tuesday this is an important step toward implementing a cease-fire agreement signed last year...
Former Congolese warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba’s journey from convicted war criminal to a hero with his convictions overturned mirrors the volatility in the troubled heart of Africa.
When the news of Jean-Pierre Bemba’s arrival home on Wednesday broke, the crowd outside...
Mali’s defense ministry says at least four soldiers have been killed in an attack by armed men in the central Segou region.
Defense Minister Tiena Coulibaly says the gunmen ambushed the convoy Tuesday. No group has claimed responsibility, but the...
Soldiers and police fired live rounds, water cannons and tear gas at furious protesters who threw rocks and burned vehicles Wednesday in Zimbabwe’s capital, dashing the optimism of an election that the country hoped would set it on a...
