Agents and detainees are now confined in a makeshift detention center in a shipping container facing risks from disease, and warnings of potential attacks.

Incumbent presidents and ruling parties increasingly bend the law to entrench their power and silence opposition.

Petrobras aims to make Africa its main region of development outside Brazil, the state-run oil giant's CEO told Reuters on Thursday during a wide-ranging interview about the company's strategy.

More than three decades on, Mr Kagame has gone from the darling of donors to Africa’s arch-exponent of realpolitik. He has turned to new friends abroad to gamble on state-led modernisation. In neighbouring Congo he has fuelled a long-running conflict.

If confirmed by the Senate, Vice. Adm. Brad Cooper will replace Gen. Michael "Erik" Kurilla as U.S. Central Command chief.

South African fashion retailer Mr Price reported a 10.1% increase in full-year earnings on Friday on strong second-half performance as it gained market share.Diluted headline earnings per share, a key profit measure in South Africa,

South Africa’s current-account deficit narrowed slightly in the first quarter, beating expectations for it to widen.

But what is less well known is that African dust is vital for our coral reefs. In fact, it would not be a stretch to say that the reefs as we know them, which surround Florida & the Bahamas, would not exist without thousands of years of dust plumes.

China's Chery Auto launched the sale of the hybrid versions of its Omoda C9 and Jaecoo J7 SUVs in South Africa on Thursday, its first new-energy vehicles in the country. The launch comes at a time of growing competition in Africa's largest automotive market,

Creating facts on the ground to gain leverage is typical of Rwanda’s president, according to one admirer, who describes him as “Africa’s Clausewitz”. For Mr Kagame, like the Prussian general, war is the continuation of politics by other means.