Africa

At least 94 psychiatric patients died of negligence in South Africa last year after they were moved from a licensed home to unregistered facilities, the health ombudsman said on Wednesday,…

Nine troops were killed as east Libyan forces took a cluster of buildings on the edge of a recently recaptured district of Benghazi from Islamist-led rivals, a military spokesman said…

Pastor Evan Mawarire, who launched the movement #ThisFlag, to get Zimbabweans to rally round the national flag and speak out against Mugabe policies, is seen at a press conference in…

Congolese opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi  Congo’s main opposition leader, Etienne Tshisekedi, one of the country’s most important advocates of democracy, has died in Brussels aged 84, diplomatic sources said on…

The entrance of the ICC is seen in The Hague African leaders have backed a “strategy of collective withdrawal” from the International Criminal Court (ICC), but it came with unspecified…

South African prosecutor Gerrie Nel South African prosecutor Gerrie Nel, who laid out the murder case against Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, has resigned to join a civic group that plans to…

FILE – A group of South Sudanese government soldiers sit on the back of a pickup truck en route to Malakal, South Sudan, Oct. 16, 2016. Fresh clashes broke out…

A boy walks out of a religious school in Agadez, Niger In a dirt-floored room in the town of Agadez in Niger, a pair of flip-flops and a cold pile…

King Mohammed VI of Morocco Morocco rejoined the club of African states on Tuesday, 33 years after quitting over recognition of Western Sahara, bringing one of Africa’s largest economies into…

Chadian Foreign Minister Moussa Faki Mahamat  African Union leaders chose Chad’s candidate to chair the 54-nation body on Monday at a summit where the divisive issues of Africa’s relationship to…