Africa

Among the problems President Cyril Ramaphosa cited were unemployment that has passed 33 percent and inequality, among the starkest in the world.

The government says the arrested French national acted on behalf of French intelligence services to mobilise political and civil society figures and military officers.

Parties sign joint statement on results of consultations, memorandums of understanding between defense ministries of Russia, Alliance of Sahel States

Authorities say the funeral on Friday will be largely a military service led by the Ghana Armed Forces.

Rescue operations are ongoing at a Tanzanian mine which collapsed and buried at least 25 people, the country’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Thursday.

Senior officials from more than 30 countries and international bodies on Thursday urged an immediate halt to the siege of El Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur region.

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office has criticised South Africa’s top general for reported comments about solidarity with Iran during the military chief’s recent trip to Tehran.

The leader of Côte d’Ivoire’s main opposition party suffered a blow to his presidential hopes on Thursday as the head of the electoral commission said it would not be updating the electoral roll, from which he has been barred.

Eswatini activists have urged the High Court to declare as unconstitutional the country’s acceptance of five foreign nationals deported from the United States.

The African Union argues the current world map gives the impression that Africa was “marginal”, despite being the world’s second-largest continent by area.