Africa

File Photo of gunman, posing for a portrait on an Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) of the French Army during the...

A bill to decriminalise homosexual activity is making headway in Gabon, where such contact has been banned for nearly a...

Millions of migrant workers who lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic are expected to return home to already...

South Africa’s embattled ex-president Jacob Zuma returned to court on Tuesday for the latest round in a corruption case that...

South Africa rolls out the continent’s first coronavirus vaccine trial this week, the university leading the pilot said Tuesday, as...

South Africa’s unemployment rate jumped rose one percentage point to 30.1 percent in the first quarter of this year compared...

Here are profiles of the two leading contenders in Malawi’s presidential election re-run:– The elderly incumbent –President Peter Mutharika, 79,...

Burundi’s newly elected president Evariste Ndayishimiye was to be sworn in on Thursday, after the sudden death of his predecessor...

Uganda’s election commission on Tuesday published a roadmap for presidential and legislative elections in early 2021, assuaging fears the coronavirus...

African countries are pushing for the UN’s top rights body to launch a high-level investigation into “systemic racism” and police...