Thabo Mbeki has entered a legal battle between the government and the families of victims of apartheid-era crimes.

Olusegun Obasanjo, a former president of Nigeria, has stated that democracy in Africa has failed because it does not align ...

A peace deal ending a conflict that killed tens of thousands in South Sudan is in danger of collapsing, raising fears that ...

Kirsty Coventry has been elected as the 10th President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), becoming the first woman and African to ever be elected to the position. Coventry, 41, will also be ...

The United Nations warned that the detention of Vice President Riek Machar threatens to push the world’s youngest country ...

Ms. Coventry, the current Minister of Youth, Art, Sport and Recreation in Zimbabwe, has made history by becoming the first African and the first woman to be elected President of the IOC.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The next president of ... the coup that removed Mugabe in the new administration of current President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Mugabe's vice president who rights ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has assented to new spy laws for South Africa, which introduces massive changes for the State ...

Sirleaf and Banda, now former leaders of their countries, and Tanzania's current president ... She is a veteran of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), which led Namibia to ...