Morocco has sentenced an 82-year-old former minister to five years in prison after he criticised King Mohammed’s absences from the country and suggested that...

There is rarely cause for celebration in Eritrea, but a historic winner at the Tour de France has brought huge joy to the gulag state. News that Biniam...

A man who described as a serial killer by police in Kenya was tortured into confessing, his lawyer has told a court in Nairobi. Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, 33,...

President Kagame of Rwanda has won 99 per cent of the vote in provisional results from Monday’s presidential ballot, a widely predicted outcome that will...

A café packed with football fans watching the Euro 2024 final on television was struck by a powerful car bomb in the capital of Somalia killing nine people in...

The Kenyan president has dismissed almost his entire cabinet after weeks of protests led by young professionals against tax rises and state corruption. In a...

A baffling spate of unprovoked attacks by seals on beachgoers in Cape Town has been linked to an outbreak of rabies, the first confirmed cases of the virus in...

The daughter of the long-serving president of Cameroon has caused uproar and embarrassed her father by coming out as a lesbian and attacking the African...

The most obvious qualification of South Africa’s new sports and culture minister is that he once owned a string of nightclubs. Yet Gayton McKenzie, a...

For 26 years, a small window behind a rusted grill was Omar bin Omran’s only connection to the outside world. The teenager went missing in 1998 and although...