Africa

Russia has rapidly expanded its military presence in Libya, an investigation has found, sparking alarm at a time of heightened tensions between Moscow and the West amid the war in...

South Africa’s Constitutional Court will decide on an appeal questioning former President Jacob Zuma’s eligibility to run in this month’s election, a race that could tilt the balance of the...

Late last year, over 50 African leaders gathered in Riyadh for the first ever Saudi-Africa summit. Convened by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, it brought together a mélange of democrats...

EXCLUSIVE: After clinching the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2019 with her debut fiction feature Atlantics, French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop had one burning desire.  “My dream was to set up...

Rescue teams in were racing against time on Wednesday to find more survivors after a deadly building collapse in the country’s Western Cape province, as search operations entered a third day. Rescuers used underground cameras...

I cannot imagine how a 63-year-old high priest could possibly marry a 12-year-old girl in a lavish ceremony and proudly pose for the cameras while doing so. It seems inconceivable...

At least five people have died and about 50 others remain trapped following the collapse of a building in South Africa. Rescue teams said on Tuesday that they had contacted...

Robbers in South Africa are snatching wigs made of human hair from people’s heads after the valuable hairpieces became the latest targets for criminals.  Women have reported a spate of...

EXCLUSIVE: Production has started in South Africa on Oscar-winning director Gore Verbinski’s new action adventure film Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, starring Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz...

Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, is a bustling African port city on the Atlantic Ocean, where even the dead can’t rest, say its residents. Cemeteries are bolstering their security measures because...