Diplomats from eight southern and east African countries have signed a letter calling on the UK Government to support a private member’s Bill that aims to speed up debt restructurings, after economic ...

Mali's military leader General Assimi Goïta has won the backing of key political allies to be declared President for the next five years, reports BBC News. The 41-year-old, who has seized power twice, ...

Around 2 000 different languages are spoken in Africa and each of them have different dialects, while Arabic is the language that is most widely spoken in the African continent.

Kenya’s President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Daniel Musinga, dismissed a claim of bribery against him when he testified for the prosecution in the Milimani Law Courts this week. According to ...

The embassies of Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, the UK and the US, as well as the Delegation of the European Union, have renewed pressure on the President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, to ...

Henry Kachaje, the chief executive officer of the Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority, has blamed unauthorised vendors for the fuel crisis ravaging the country. According to Malawi 24, Kachaje stated ...

The Togolese leader, Faure Gnassingbé, has been sworn in as ‘President of the Council of Ministers’ – a new post which is the highest office in the government's executive branch and has no official ...

The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has escalated its opposition to President John Mahama’s suspension of Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo, warning of imminent legal action if the directive is not revoked ...

Scotland Yard has received a dossier of evidence documenting myriad alleged war crimes committed by a paramilitary group during the conflict in Sudan, reports The Guardian. Lawyers have submitted a ...