After the death of the president’s chosen successor, the ruling party says “everything is possible”

After more than 30 years of Islamist rule, the new justice minister outlines wide-reaching reforms.

Mali’s embattled president announced the dissolution of the constitutional court in an attempt to calm the major civil unrest gripping the vulnerable African country, as more opposition leaders were arrested.

Mali’s security forces arrested more opposition leaders on Saturday and Prime Minister Boubuou Cisse said four people had died in major unrest in the vulnerable Sahel nation.

Prosecutors in the US are investigating the son of the president of the Republic of Congo for the alleged embezzlement of several million dollars from the coffers of the publicly-owned National Society of Petroleum of Congo (SNPC), according to the N

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Justice Minister Celestin Tunda tendered his resignation on Saturday in the wake of a dispute with the president over proposed laws that would give politicians more control over criminal prosecu

Tensions ran high in Mali Saturday, a day after deadly mass protests seeking the president’s ouster, as the opposition vowed to turn up the heat until he quits.

Zanu-PF says it will expel Old Mutual from its financial system, sowing confusion over the status of the insurance giant in the country.

The global pandemic is forcing humanity to change one of its most fundamental behaviours.

Tensions ran high in Mali Saturday, a day after deadly mass protests seeking the ouster of the fragile nation’s president, as the opposition vowed to turn up the heat until he quits.

World Cup organising chief Danny Jordaan says the 2010 tournament “took world football’s knee off Africa’s neck”.

A Zimbabwean woman is campaigning to get the machine fixed to avoid a mastectomy.

Protesters in Mali’s capital Bamako blocked two of the city’s main bridges and hurled stones at the parliament Friday, AFP journalists said, during a protest against President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita.

President Keita faces no shortage of challenges to his authority. Can he hold on to power?

Though food is exempt from sanctions, asset freezes, banking restrictions and currency rout hamper grain imports.

Burkina Faso’s government has questioned the conclusions of a Human Rights Watch report which said that the country’s armed forces may have carried out mass executions.

Botswana has received test results from samples sent to Zimbabwe to determine the cause of death of hundreds of elephants but it is waiting for more results.

Two protesters and one police officer have been killed as demonstrations in several key cities turn violent.

Mali’s main protest group has said that fresh anti-government demonstrations will take place, rejecting the president’s latest attempts to appease the resurgent opposition.