Africa

United States regrets Zimbabwe decision to withdraw from $367m health deal

Africa

Muslims ‘massacred’ in Nigeria for refusing to join jihadists

Africa

Africa finance ministers launch forum to drive climate-responsive economic transformation in Lusaka

Africa

Botswana launches sale of citizenship at $75,000

Forty children involved in Boko Haram suicide bombings

Africa May 17, 2016

The number of children used by Boko Haram as suicide bombers up tenfold from four bombers in 2015 to 44 this year, the United...

Mugabe becomes grandfather

Africa May 16, 2016

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, 92, has confirmed that he became a grandfather for the first time last month when his only daughter Bona Chikore...

CIA ‘spied’ on Mandela

Africa May 16, 2016

Nelson Mandela's arrest in 1962 came as a result of a tip-off from an agent of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a report...

Jolie warns of ‘race to the bottom’

Africa May 16, 2016

Angelina Jolie-Pitt, the UN refugee agency's special envoy, says that the number of people left homeless by conflict in Africa is increasing. Speaking in...