Trade unionist-turned-businessman Cyril Ramaphosa was sworn in as South Africa’s president yesterday, vowing to create jobs and

An explosion struck a tourist bus yesterday near Egypt’s famed pyramids, injuring 17 people including foreigners, security sources said.

Talks between Sudan’s army rulers and protesters are set to resume, army rulers announced yesterday, as Islamic movements planned to rally for the inclusion of sharia in the country’s roadmap.

A South African business executive reached the top of Mount Everest yesterday in what is believed to be the first summit of the world’s highest mountain by a black African woman. S

At least nine people were wounded on Wednesday when Sudanese forces used live ammunition to clear demonstrators from central Khartoum, a protest group said, and talks on forming a body to lead Sudan to democracy have been suspended for 72 hours.

Sudanese army rulers and protest leaders yesterday agreed on a three-year transition period for transferring power to a full civilian

A suicide bomber killed at least four people and injured several others yesterday after detonating a car packed with explosives in

The African National Congress was headed for victory in South Africa’s election yesterday, although the party was on course for its worst performance since it took power 25 years ago.

French special forces have freed two French hostages, an American and a South Korean in northern Burkina Faso in an overnight military raid that cost the lives of two soldiers, the French presidency says.

Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress (ANC) surged into the lead in early official results yesterday with 55 percent of the vote in

South Africans began voting yesterday in national elections which the ruling ANC, in power since 1994, is favourite to win despite corruption scandals, sluggish economic growth and record unemployment.

A powerful but deep 7.2-magnitude earthquake rocked Papua New Guinea yesterday, officials said, cutting power and knocking items off

Fifty-five people die when a tanker truck explodes near the international airport of Niger's capital Niamey overnight, an interior ministry spokesman says.

More than 1,000 people have now died of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said, as aid workers warned that the highly contagious virus combined with insecurity in the restive region was creating a “deeply worrying situation”.

South Sudan's warring parties will hold talks in Addis Ababa, in a bid to salvage a stalled peace deal, with just days to go until a unity government is meant to be formed.

Six people, including a pastor, are killed in an attack on a Christian church in Burkina Faso, a government spokesman says.

Air raids by the self-styled Libyan National Army against the capital on Saturday night killed four people and wounded 20 others, Libya’s internationally recognised unity government said.

A former Algerian police chief, General Abdelghani Hamel, once considered a pillar of the regime of ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been

Sudan’s military rulers and opposition agreed in principle on Saturday to the formation of a joint body to lead a transition from 30 years of autocratic rule by Omar al-Bashir, but not on the new council’s make-up, two sources said.

More than 150 children -- some as young as 11 -- were among 220 people rescued from sex and labor trafficking rings in West Africa, Interpol