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

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

Mauritania's prime minister was reappointed on Friday, just hours after he had resigned over a scathing report into fires at two main electricity substations in the capital Nouakchott. President ...

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.

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.

They say Madhubalu, who lives in a Safari Park in Karachi, has improved somewhat but time will tell if all will be well.

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

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

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

The carrier temporarily suspended its services to Mekelle on 23 September, citing the 'current situation' in the Tigray region.

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