President Jacob Zuma explained the reasoning behind his controversial Cabinet reshuffle at the World Economic Forum on Africa 2017 in Durban. Pravin Gordhan and Mcebisi Jonas were ... Read more »
The meeting comes at a time when South Africa's credit rating was reduced to "junk" status by rating agencies and Africa battles to maintain growth. Read more »
This is the third time that President Muhammadu Buhari has missed the meeting. Buhari has been under growing pressure to disclose the state of his health since he returned from ... Read more »
The Chief Magistrate has granted Sule Lamido bail and adjourned the case to July 5 to allow the police conclude their investigations. The former Jigawa State governor was arrested ... Read more »
Members among the African National Congress's alliance partners who booed President Jacob Zuma at the Congress of South African Trade Unions' main May Day rally in Bloemfontein ... Read more »
President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo said in a tweet: "I am cutting short my visit to Ethiopia to mourn with my country and take part in the state burial of minister Abass." Read more »
President Edgar Lungu has been accused of being a dictator who rules through fear and intimidation. Among the voices is Zambia's Conference of Catholic Bishops which has ... Read more »
The 2017 World Press Freedom index has placed Nigeria at 122 out of 180 countries; down six places since last year. Read more »
The Kenyan ruling Jubilee Party tribunal has overturned earlier results showing that current MP Maina Kamanda had won the primaries. Read more »
The former chief justice, Godfrey Chidyausiku, has died in a South African hospital barely two months after he retired from his post. Chidyausiku was elevated to the post of Chief ... Read more »
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