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LUSAKA - President Edgar Lungu was leading in Zambia's presidential election on Monday, with 85 percent of the constituencies counted, but his main rival demanded a recount in…

Zambia on Friday awaited the first election results from what is expected to have been a close contest between President Edgar Lungu and his main rival, who accuses…

MBEERE, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Farmers in Kenya's eastern and northern drylands have found a way to stay afloat as water becomes scarcer: cultivating catfish.

LAGOS- Nigeria's central bank intervened on the interbank foreign exchange market on Tuesday to help support the naira after it hit an all-time low of 350 to the…

HARARE- Zimbabwe's government is working on measures to avoid delays in salary payments to soldiers, police officers and other public employees, President Robert Mugabe said on Monday.

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's main opposition leader proclaimed the dawn of an era of 'non-racial' politics envisioned by the late Nelson Mandela on Monday, saying a bid by…

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - More than 90 people were shot dead by security forces in protests across Ethiopia's Oromiya and Amhara regions at the weekend, residents and opposition…

UNITED NATIONS- The United States proposed on Sunday that the United Nations Security Council authorize a 4,000-strong force to ensure peace in South Sudan's capital Juba and threaten…

PRETORIA - South Africa's ruling party was on track for its worst electoral performance since coming to power two decades ago, poised to lose control of a key…

JOHANNESBURG, Aug 3 (Reuters) - South Africa holds local government elections on Wednesday in what looks likely to become a referendum on President Jacob Zuma's scandal-plagued leadership and…