Africa

Kizza Besigye’s wife says he was seized in Nairobi and is being held in a Kampala jail, as she calls...

‘Irro’ took over 60 percent of the vote having pledged to push efforts to gain international recognition for the region.Abdirahman...

Hundreds – possibly thousands – of miners remain trapped in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa’s northwestern Stilfontein town,...

Almost 7.7 million people will be classified as acutely food insecure in the world’s youngest nation as it grapples with...

DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Rescue operations involving volunteers under way in Stilfontein amid reports that hundreds are still trapped underground.Two men...

More than seven million people eligible to vote in the snap election, with jobs and rising prices on their minds.Polls...

Transitional leader urges voters to back draft charter, which proposes changes that include presidential term limits.Gabon is voting in a...

As discussions at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku over how to finance climate action remain gridlocked, Southern...

The Black Stars needed two wins in their last two qualifying games and are now left at bottom place in...

Government initially closed a shaft to deprive undocumented miners it called ‘criminal’ of food, water and medicine.Dozens of local volunteers...