His call comes months after youth-led protests highlighted frustrations and expectations around social and economic opportunities.

Guinea-Bissau’s December elections are now in doubt and Senegal is urging the country’s military rulers to lift restrictions ...

Jacob Zuma’s hospitalisation has raised questions about his participation in upcoming uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party campaign events ahead of South Africa’s local government elections.

This follows two-days of violent anti-foreigner riots in the cities of Durban and Johannesburg, that come weeks before local government elections.

The Cap-Haitien police department say they also found that the man did not have authorisation to run his orphanage in the port city.

From defending Nelson Mandela to leading a panel that found genocide in Gaza, South African-born jurist Navi Pillay has won the Nobel Peace Prize for championing international law.

South African judge and human rights lawyer on called on people to stand together in the defence of the rule of law.

In its ruling on Wednesday, the Gauteng High Court avoided taking a position on whether the code was constitutional or on its ...

Thousands of Ethiopian migrants are facing a humanitarian crisis in Djibouti, with food and water running dangerously low ...

Protests in Soweto and Durban opposed the Constitutional Court’s decision to remove procedural barriers to seeking asylum. They followed months of anti-immigrant tensions ...

Ethiopia and Eritrea are trading accusations of aggression, as fighting in northern Ethiopia raises fears of a new regional war.

In Zimbabwe, a discreet caravan at a Harare-area hospital is giving teenage girls private access to contraception, away from ...