The elections on Sunday are widely expected to ‌extend incumbent President Denis Sassou Nguesso's decades-long rule.

Known as the “right of salt”, it’s an age-old tradition in the Maghreb showing gratitude for efforts made to prepare the ...

About 150 Palestinians landed in Johannesburg in November – one of at least three flights filled with Gazans to have arrived in Indonesia and South Africa since last May.

More than 50 people were rescued from an overcrowded boat in the central Mediterranean on Friday evening, nine of them children. It was the second rescue of the day for Italian NGO Organisation ...

Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine announced Saturday that he has fled the country to escape a military-led manhunt ...

Senegal successfully paid nearly half a billion dollars in debt obligations on Friday, avoiding default, but spending cuts, ...

France returned a sacred drum that was taken from the Ivory Coast during colonial rule at a ceremony in Abidjan on Friday, ...

Scores of pro-Iran Shia Muslims gathered at the Abuja National Mosque on Friday, defying a heavy security presence to mark ...

Many aspiring models look up to stars such as Awar Odhiang, who rose from a refugee camp in Ethiopia to close a show for ...

The death toll from devastating floods and landslides across East Africa has surpassed 110, with at least 64 people killed in ...

With dozens of abandoned mine shafts lining the outskirts of Johannesburg, illegal mining is rife in the area as heavily ...

The High Court in London refused on Tuesday to grant permission to initiate legal proceedings against the British Foreign ...