Hundreds of men armed with whips and clubs, known locally as 'goons', attacked groups of protesters in Kenya on Tuesday. The ...

The Niger government says that over 700 persons are still missing following the recent flooding in Mokwa Community in Mokwa ...

The ruling junta in Mali is tightening its hold on the gold industry as it moves to reclaim control from established foreign ...

Nigeria has reported an increase in Lassa fever cases, with 11 new confirmed infections, bringing the death toll to 143 this ...

Although access to mental health and psychosocial support services is considered a fundamental human right by the United Nations (UN), hundreds of millions of people experience limited or inadequate ...

Carbon markets could release 1.5 to 2.5 gigatonnes of new emissions annually, fueling more pollution in Africa, a recent report by Power Shift Africa has revealed.

At the edge of the neat pavements and duplex homes of Pioneer Valley estate in Parklands North in Cape Town, fetid sewage flows into the neighbouring Riverside informal settlement. Meanwhile, families ...

In a March parliamentary reply, Police Minister Senzo Mchunu said that in Stilfontein, 1,916 miners had been arrested and charged with illegal mining, illegal immigration, possession of gold-bearing ...

President William Ruto has defended the government's Affordable Housing Programme, stating that no level of criticism will deter his administration from pushing forward with the initiative, which he ...

Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule has revealed that, beyond the shady deals that led to the recent recruitment of teachers, half of the applicants employed were not qualified.

"African countries... they're not asking us to pull them up. They're already there. They want us to respect their sovereignty. Treat them as equal partners. And that's what we have been doing," the US ...

The Rwandan -controlled M23 armed group has deported over 1,500 people from occupied eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to Rwanda in violation of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, Human Rights Watch said ...