Africa

Hararae: Zimbabwe is trying to improve accommodation for the military, President Robert Mugabe said on Tuesday, in a bid to retain its support despite...

Addis Ababa: More than 90 people were shot dead by security forces in protests across Ethiopia's Oromiya and Amhara regions at the weekend, residents...

United Nations: The United States proposed late Sunday that the United Nations Security Council authorise a 4,000-strong force to ensure peace in South...

Johannesburg: Oscar Pistorius was treated in hospital for wrist injuries on Saturday, a prison service spokesman said, adding the jailed South African track...

Cape Town: The African National Congress lost its stranglehold on South African politics as voter discontent over the struggling economy, a scarcity of jobs...

Pretoria: South Africa's ANC was on track for its worst electoral performance since the end of apartheid on Friday as voters vented anger about high...

Juba: South Sudan rejected on Friday accusations from the UN that its soldiers had raped and killed civilians during and after ethnically-charged fighting...

Johannesburg/Pretoria: South Africans voted in local elections on Wednesday that could see the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and its scandal-hit...

Geneva/Juba: Tens of thousands of people have fled a fresh outbreak of violence in South Sudan, reporting mass killings, looting and forced recruitment of...

Juba: At least nine people were killed in South Sudan over the weekend in renewed clashes between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and those of his...