Africa

A significant step by South Africa’s legal system in confronting the atrocities of the country’s dark political past.  A judge this week approved the trial of two apartheid-era police officers …

Former Congoleseb president Joseph Kabila made a quiet entry into Goma Friday from self-imposed exile. The choice of Goma, held by M23 rebels since January has elicited differing thoughts from …

At least 143 people died and dozens more went missing after a boat carrying fuel caught fire and capsized in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said on Friday. Hundreds …

The South African government is still embroiled in a tax row between the ruling African National Congress party (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA).  The DA party has taken the …

At a United Nations Security Council meeting Thursday, the new Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya, Hanna Tetteh, informed the members, “most Libyan leaders call for an inclusive political …

The commander of the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group fighting the Sudanese government armed forces for two years, has declared that he would establish an alternative government, two years …

The World Trade Organization says the volume of trade in goods worldwide is likely to decrease by 0.2% this year due to the U.S. President Donald Trump’s shifting tariff policies …

Mozambique’s security forces carried out a brutal, three-month crackdown on protesters after the country’s election last year, a leading international rights group said Wednesday, citing local activists who alleged that …

An American pastor kidnapped by armed men during a church service in South Africa has been freed following a “high-intensity shoot-out” that left three people dead, police say. Josh Sullivan …

As Sudan marks two years since the outbreak of civil war, humanitarian agencies are warning of the immense and growing needs faced by the country’s population, particularly in its devastated …