Africa

PRETORIA, South Africa — Some white South Africans showed support for on Saturday and gathered at the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria by their own government. Hundreds of protesters held placards...

M23 insurgents in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) captured two more towns and reached the airport in the provincial capital of Bukavu on Friday, raising fears of a...

Los Angeles’ Democratic Mayor Karen Bass Thursday conceded her Africa trip was “absolutely” a mistake and that she was working to regain the public’s trust after facing backlash for her...

Here’s how this ends: smiles and handshakes on the White House lawn on a warm spring day. The national anthems, performed by South African soprano Pretty Yende. A Xhosa praise...

As the is preparing to elect its in February. Three key contenders are now in the spotlight to fill . One is Djibouti’s Foreign Minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, a seasoned diplomat who is used...

It has become customary every four years for DW Africa to conduct a nearly week-long tour of various regions in Germany to report on the federal election. This year, we’re hitting the road starting...

For decades, U.S. policy toward Africa has underdelivered or outright failed for both Washington and Africa—and the Trump administration appears to have noticed. On Feb. 3, it announced that it...

Land reform law met with questions Land ownership is a in South Africa, with most farmland still being owned by white people three decades after the end of apartheid. Some...

The leading South African opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), has filed a lawsuit in a provincial court against the Expropriation Act, which U.S. President Donald Trump criticized in an...

United States President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order freezing aid to South Africa, citing a recent land expropriation law passed by the country that the American leader...