Africa

Beginning 30 years ago this month, the Rwandan genocide unfolded quickly between April 7 and July 15, 1994. In that short time, an estimated 500,000-800,000 people were killed. When Rwandan...

The killing spree, which lasted 100 days before the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) rebel militia took Kigali in July 1994, claimed the lives of around 800,000 people, largely Tutsis but...

Cameroon’s capital, Yaounde, vibrates with the hum of engines. Exhaust from cars and factories mingles with the smoke from burning garbage and envelops the city in a gray smog. “With...

New mass graves are still being found in Rwanda, 30 years after the country’s genocide in which an estimated 800,000 Tutsi were killed. The remains of at least 1,000 people...

Madagascar has urged the EU to remove its ambassador to the island nation after she criticized a recent law allowing the castration of child rapists. The controversial legislation, passed by...

Tensions between President Faure Gnassingbe‘s government and the opposition have heightened following parliament’s approval of a contested constitutional reform critics say is a bid to keep Togo’s leader in power....

Botswana this week threatened to lump Germany with 20,000 excess elephants, as it struggles to combat a pachydermous overpopulation problem. The president of Botswana, Mokgweetsi Masisi, insisted he wasn’t joking...

Zimbabwe declared a state of disaster Wednesday over a devastating drought that’s sweeping across much of southern Africa, with the country’s president saying it needs $2 billion for humanitarian assistance....

In a resignation letter seen by AFP, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said she decided to step down with immediate effect to uphold the integrity of parliament and focus on the investigation against...

Speaker of National Assembly Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula resigned Wednesday, a day after losing a court bid that would block her arrest over allegations of corruption. The resignation comes ahead of . The ruling...