Politics

At least seven people have been killed and many more injured during recent anti-government protests in Togo’s capital, Lomé, according...

Cameroon's Tourism Minister Bello Bouba Maigari has accepted his party's nomination to seek the presidency in an expected October election,...

Laurent Gbagbo who ruled Ivory Coast from 2000 until he was forced from power in 2011 had ran to the...

A long-time ally of Cameroon's leader has quit the government to run for president in October elections - a defection...

South Africa's Democratic Alliance party has withdrawn from a national dialogue but stopped short of leaving the coalition government after...

A South African court prevented Zambia's former president Edgar Lungu from being buried in Johannesburg just before the ceremony was...

On Africa's dry western tip, Mauritania has become an unlikely staging post for Ukraine's increasingly global struggle with its adversary...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has removed from his position as deputy trade minister a politician from the Democratic Alliance...

Eritrea is trying to cancel the mandate of a U.N. expert investigating alleged abuses, a document sent to the U.N....

At least 10 people were hospitalised with gunshot injuries during rallies in Kenya on Wednesday to mark the one-year anniversary...