In his latest essay, historian Fabrice Riceputi looks back at the abuses committed by Jean Louis Marie Le Pen, the French ...

Journalists across Africa are targeted, says Angela Quintal, the head of Africa programme at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), adding that ‘as old and new laws are used to criminalise ...

Thousands of dignitaries from across the Muslim world will converge in The Gambia this weekend for the 15th edition of the ...

The French oil and gas giant, which has a strong African presence, is mulling a strategic move away from Paris’s CAC40 to join the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

Days after nine governors from northern Nigeria attended a security summit in Washington, critics and civic groups have railed at them for wasting state resources on the trip.

As El Nino bites in Zimbabwe, millions of citizens are forced to rely on food assistance. But the distribution of the ...

The UAE has signed agreements with Sudan and South Sudan, strangling the two countries economically and politically, while ...

Many of the 1.5 million members of South Africa’s largest trade union federation COSATU will support the governing African ...

Former president Jacob Zuma has been summoned by the African National Congress to appear before a disciplinary committee for campaigning for the opposition uMkhonto weSizwe Party, as reports appear ...

Thirty years ago, when Nelson Mandela and the ANC swept to victory in South Africa’s first democratic elections, Imtiaz ...

Uganda’s parliament has described sanctions against Speaker Anita Among by the UK government as an attempt to penalise her ...

As we mark World Press Freedom Day, there is nothing much to celebrate across the sub-Saharan African region when it comes to journalism in Ethiopia.