Society

No to "quotas" linked to skin colour. A new law aimed at increasing black employment in South Africa is angering...

A Sudanese general rejected in threatening language a Kenyan-led proposal that East African peacekeepers help end a more than 100-day...

Gabon launched what is set to be Africa's first debt-for-nature swap on Tuesday, with a plan to buy up at...

Four types of medicine, made in India, caused the deaths of at least 70 children in Gambia last year, according...

Democratic Republic of Congo's former president Joseph Kabila has rejected accusations from neighbouring Uganda that he gave sanctuary to a...

South Africa deployed the army in four of its provinces after at least 21 trucks carrying goods were set on...

Authorities in Senegal have disputed reports that 300 people travelling on three migrant boats from Senegal to Spain's Canary Islands...

Tunisia should halt collective expulsions of sub-Saharan African migrants and urgently enable access to humanitarian services for those the government...

Zambia is making moves to abolish the death penalty, President Hakainde Hichilema has announced. He termed it a "big decision"...

An audit into Covid spending in Malawi has found that around $4.7m (£3.7m) cannot be accounted for from $21m set...