Opposition figures described the changes as a “constitutional coup” saying they must be put to a national referendum.

The protests over unpaid stipends reflects growing frustration among the youth who accuse the government they helped bring to ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday marked 36 years since Nelson Mandela’s release from prison by launching a new training academy at the Drakenstein Correctional Facility, where the former ...

Madagascar is reeling after a powerful cyclone tore through its east coast, killing several people and leaving widespread destruction in its wake.

Frustration is boiling over in Johannesburg after nearly a month of dry taps pushed residents to take to the streets, ...

The United States is set to deploy around 200 troops to Nigeria to assist in training the country’s military to combat Islamist militant groups, according to a U.S. official on Tuesday.

A self-proclaimed preacher in Kenya linked to an infamous starvation cult that killed more than 400 people was charged on ...

Libya granted several foreign companies new oil exploration and production licences for the first time in 17 years on ...

General Ashraf Salem Zaher, the former head of the Egyptian Military Academy -succeeds General Abdelmeguid Saqr, and will lead a merged ministry for defence and military production - the latter previo ...

Tensions are mounting in the Arctic after several European countries deployed small troop contingents to Greenland, following ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has not "sold off" its vast mineral wealth to the United States under an agreement granting Washington access to its reserves, the country's mining minister said on ...

At least 20 people have been killed after Cyclone Gezani tore into Madagascar with violent winds and torrential rain. The ...