Burundi’s ruling party won all 108 seats in the national assembly following an election. Three indigenous lawmakers obtained seats to fulfill so-called ethnic equilibrium, taking the total allocated ...

The Democratic Alliance (DA) on Thursday called for a comprehensive turnaround strategy to capacitate the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) with permanent staff and modern ...

Tanzania's economic growth is forecast to rise to 6% this year from 5.5% last year, its planning and investment minister said on Thursday. Minister Kitila Mkumbo added that the budget deficit was seen ...

Community involvement in xenophobic attacks Most xenophobic conflicts portray sections of the community as being extremely ...

The number of people displaced by war and persecution around the world climbed above 122-million this year due to a failure to resolve multi-year conflicts such as those in Sudan and Ukraine, the UN ...

The death toll from floods in South Africa's Eastern Cape province has risen to 49, the head of the province said on ...

On the night of 30 October 2002, eight bomb blasts tore through Soweto, leaving one woman dead and damaging vital ...

Kenya's finance minister will present a budget on Thursday aimed at boosting revenues to service debt while avoiding tax ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has revealed that a National Convention, which will set the agenda for the National Dialogue, will ...

The South African rand was marginally stronger in early trade on Wednesday, as lawmakers were due to vote on the first pieces ...

The Sudanese army retreated from the Libya-Egypt-Sudan border triangle area, it said on Wednesday, a day after it accused forces loyal to eastern Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar of an attack ...

Bahr el-Din Yakoub fled Sudan to seek sanctuary in Egypt after a missile ripped through his home in Khartoum and killed four of his friends. But economic hardship and a crackdown on refugees in Egypt ...