Her election as the first African woman to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea is a landmark moment for her ...

The National Treasury has temporarily frozen R13.5bn ($825.8m) in funding to 69 failing South African municipalities, drawing ...

Assistant Secretary of State Frank Garcia is travelling to Nigeria, Mali and Côte d’Ivoire for his inaugural trip to the ...

A court sentenced the Rapid Support Forces leader Mohamed Hamdan ‘Hemeti’ Dagalo and 15 others to death over killing a ...

With just over a year until the next general election, Kenya President William Ruto faces a challenging political landscape ...

An ally of Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Wicknell Chivayo has steadily expanded his network across the continent, cultivating relationships with political elites and securing business ...

The constitutional council ruling that the bill passed on 29 June by PASTEF lawmakers was unconstitutional is a stinging blow ...

Fresh from her acquittal on bribery charges in Britain, Nigeria’s former petroleum minister Diezani Alison-Madueke is seeking ...

Known for his combative politics and fiery rhetoric, Abuja’s ambassador to Pretoria is tasked with defusing a crisis fuelled ...

The disbursement confirms Addis Ababa cleared the International Monetary Fund’s fifth review. The test facing the National ...

Fifteen years after independence, the world’s youngest nation is marking the anniversary with little to celebrate and ...