The Mozambican Public Prosecutor’s Office has formally charged Gloria Chire, the treasurer of former Presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane, with crimes against state security and criminal ...

The Government of Niger declared three days of mourning following an attack on a mosque in the country’s southwest that killed at least 44 people, reports Al Jazeera. The victims were killed in a ...

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah was on Friday sworn in as Namibia’s first woman President, after winning elections last year that extended the governing party’s 35-year grip on power, reports Al Jazeera. Nandi ...

Namibia’s Ministry of Defence and Veterans Affairs has been told to consider granting of liberation war veterans government benefits. According to The Namibian, this is contained in a report by the ...

M23 rebels staging an offensive in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will withdraw their forces from the town of Walikale, which they took control of last week, in support of efforts ...

Angola is under fire after it denied entry to several senior African political figures who were to attend a conference hosted by the country's main opposition party, reports BBC News. Unita said it ...

Security analysts are praising Ecowas, the Economic Community of West African States, for activating its regional standby force but remain doubtful about its effectiveness following the recent ...

A British jury last week convicted a UN judge of forcing a young woman to work as a slave after tricking her into coming to the UK, reports Voice of America. Prosecutors said Lydia Mugambe made the ...

Africa’s total land area is approximately 30 365 000 square km, and the continent measures about 8 000km from north to south and about 7 400 km from east to west.

'Nothing but breathing the air of Africa, and actually walking through it, can communicate the indescribable sensations.' ...

The African Finance Corporation said it was accelerating efforts to mobilise the continent’s own money for investments, and tapping investors in the Middle East and Asia, as developing nations grapple ...