Africa

The United States government has imposed sanctions on Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa, First lady Auxillia Mnangagwa, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga,...

Ugandan lawmakers have passed a law that prescribes a punishment of up to 10 years in prison for identifying as...

Two gunmen opened fire on a group of people celebrating a birthday at the weekend in a township in South...

The Nigerian consulate in Johannesburg has complained to the South African government after city authorities disconnected the consulate’s electricity supplies...

The UN team in Zambia has described the decision by the country to abolish death penalty as “a historic milestone’,...

The Ghana Police Service has reiterated the ban on alarmist new year prophecies.  The country's police in a statement released...

Zambian rights activists Saturday hailed as a “huge milestone” a decision to scrap two British colonial-era laws: the death penalty...

Former Angolan President, Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, reputed for his iron-fist rule for 38 years is dead. The Angolan government...

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said it had filed civil charges against South African Cornelius Johannes Steynberg and...

Mwai Kibaki, first Kenyan President to lead the East African country for more than a decade, has died. This was...