US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called for international action to cut off weapons supplies to Sudan's RSF, following reports of mass killings in el-Fasher, reports the Kenyan Star. At the end ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement of the panel that will recommend the next National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) was profoundly worrying, writes Ann Bernstein, head of ...

The UN’s Human Rights Office in Sudan says that ‘brutal attacks’ are escalating in el-Fasher after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized the city in the western region of Darfur last ...

Botswana has nominated renowned jurist and scholar Justice Oagile Bethuel Key Dingake to run for judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The Mail & Guardian reports that this is a ...

A social media post and subsequent threats by US President Donald Trump to use military force against Nigeria's Islamic militants, whom he accuses of killing Christians, has sparked a diplomatic storm ...

With less than a fortnight to go before Presidential elections in Côte d'Ivoire, three other west African states – all ruled by military juntas – have been waging a disinformation campaign to disrupt ...

Africa is cut almost equally in two by the Equator, so that most of the continent lies within the tropical region, bounded on the north by the Tropic of Cancer and on the south by the Tropic of ...

The Chad Government has terminated its agreement with a controversial conservation organisation that has the Duke of Sussex on its board of directors, reports BBC News. It accused the charity African ...

One of Africa’s greatest leftwing intellectuals, Issa Shivji, was one of the leading figures at the University of Dar Es Salaam in the 1960s and 70s. He is known for numerous political essays and ...

* Forty-two Zimbabweans and Malawians are among the dead in a South African bus crash. The Limpopo Transport & Community Safety said the deceased were Zimbabwean and Malawian nationals who were ...

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda will not sign an economic framework this week as expected, four sources told Reuters, in another stumbling block for the Trump administration's efforts to ...

The International Monetary Fund isn’t planning to vote on a crucial debt misreporting waiver for Senegal during its Friday board meeting at which the matter will be discussed, two sources told Reuters ...