Africa

Togo has rescheduled legislative elections for April 29 after delaying the ballot over a highly contested constitutional reform, a government statement said on Tuesday. Elections had been set for April...

The electoral court ruled in favour of Zuma, 81, who is fronting uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), a new opposition party that has become a dark horse in the election race....

Guinness World Records is set to honour a British athlete nicknamed the “Hardest Geezer” for his run across Africa, despite rival runners laying claim to the title. Russ Cook completed...

A makeshift ferry overcrowded with residents reportedly fleeing a cholera outbreak sank off Mozambique’s northern coast, killing at least 98 people including children, local media said Monday. The ferry with...

The Survie (Survival) NGO that advocates for better relations between France and Africa, as well and two relatives, on Monday filed a complaint seeking a probe into the deaths of...

PARIS  — French President Emmanuel Macron was expected to go a step further in acknowledging France’s role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, and say that Paris “did not have the...

At least 94 people, many of whom are believed to be children, were killed on Sunday after a makeshift ferry sank off Mozambique’s northern coast, according to officials in the...

Sore and sandblasted but triumphant, runner Russ Cook reached the northernmost point of Africa on Sunday, almost a year after he set off from its southern tip on a quest...

The converted fishing boat, carrying about 130 people, ran into trouble as it tried to reach an island off Nampula province, officials said. “Because the boat was overcrowded and unsuited...

Sore and sandblasted but triumphant, runner Russ Cook has reached the northernmost point of Africa, almost a year after he set off from its southern tip on a quest to...