Society

Kenyan activists have launched a court case to try to block luxury lodges from being built in the Maasai Mara...

The West African country of Niger has arrested at least 16 people after introducing ​prison sentences and fines for same-sex...

Kenyan police opened ‌fire at a protest in Nairobi against reported abductions on Tuesday, killing at least one person, two...

A leading East African ‌media group whose outlets in Uganda were shut down at the weekend by soldiers is in talks with...

Kenyan police fired tear gas ‌on Thursday to disperse protesters in Nairobi after dozens took to the streets in memory...

Niger has officially submitted its request to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Hague-based tribunal said on Tuesday,...

It has been two years since Serge Oulon, an investigative journalist and editor was taken from his home in Ougadougou,...

African and Caribbean nations on Friday demanded formal apologies from countries that benefited from transatlantic slavery, as well ​as debt...

Israel has no base in Somaliland but is training ​its police and military forces, Somaliland's Defence Minister Mohamed Yusuf Ali...

A surge in attacks on ​foreign nationals in South Africa is damaging the country's global image and ‌fuelling a backlash...