Society

In a statement released yesterday, Madagascar’s Anti-Corruption Unit (PAC) said it had received complaints targeting several former officials, including ex-president...

Kenya's government and a group of donors have signed a $160 million conservation programme aimed at protecting 173,000 square km...

Burkina Faso's parliament adopted a revised penal code on Tuesday that restores the death penalty, nearly a ​decade after the...

A Kenyan court is expected to deliver its verdict Monday in the trial of self-proclaimed preacher Paul Mackenzie and his...

Persistent violence across Africa is taking a toll on farming, education and development, Burundi’s President told leaders at an African...

A former television news anchor ​was crowned king of Uganda's Tooro Kingdom on Tuesday, becoming the 13th monarch of the...

South African police were on Sunday hunting the perpetrators of two separate shootings that killed 27 people within hours of...

Ghana, which has led a campaign for reparations for the nearly four-century-long trans-Atlantic slave trade, said on Wednesday that support...

A former ​Rwandan official appeared in a London court on Tuesday charged with encouraging the ‌massacre of Tutsis and ordering...

South African investigative journalist Micah Reddy, whose family said he had gone missing while in Djibouti ​last week, is free...