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South Africa's ruling party backed Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan on Tuesday but urged him to cooperate with police investigations, days after Gordhan declined to meet detectives looking into…

Gabon voted on Saturday amid discontent over its failure to raise living standards despite oil wealth, in a poll posing the biggest challenge yet to President Ali Bongo,…

Nigeria would let Boko Haram choose a non-profit organization as an intermediary in any talks on the release of about 200 schoolgirls kidnapped from the northeastern village of…

With their country in post-election disarray over allegations of vote rigging and the economy in a tailspin, Zambians like pensioner Memory Musonda are struggling to cope and fear…

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's main opposition party on Monday won control of the local government in Johannesburg, the country's economic hub, unseating the ruling party, which has run…

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria’s air force said it had killed some senior Boko Haram militants and believed it had fatally wounded the group's leader in a raid on…

JOHANNESBURG - Thousands of subscribers of South Africa's biggest landline provider Telkom SA were cut off its network after the firm's cables were cut and some set ablaze,…

JUBA - South Sudan's former vice president and opposition leader Riek Machar has left the country to escape government forces who were pursuing him since he withdrew from…

JOHANNESBURG - South African Henri Schoeman suprised himself by securing a podium finish in an international race for the first time in his career, winning bronze in the…

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's biggest parties have failed to form coalition governments in major economic hubs following elections this month, they said on Wednesday, raising the prospect of…