Governance

The opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) party is seeking to obtain a report from the State Security Agency (SSA) on the recent looting and unrest...

A court in Tanzania has charged the leader of the main opposition party with terrorism-related crimes, police said on Monday, following his arrest while...

South Africans have lived under various alert levels in compliance with government edicts in terms of a national state of disaster since March last...

Tunisia faced its worst crisis in a decade of democracy on Monday after President Kais Saied ousted the government and froze parliament with help...

A man accused of attempting to stab Mali's interim President Assimi Goita last week has died in hospital while in the custody of security...

Ethiopia’s Amhara region on Sunday called on “all young people” to take up arms against forces from the neighbouring region of Tigray, who claimed...

Sierra Leone's parliament voted unanimously on Friday to repeal the death penalty more than two decades after the West African country carried out its...

Former President Jacob Zuma, whose jailing this month led to South Africa's worst outbreak of violence in years, was granted compassionate leave to attend...

Real democracy and visionary leaders are vital for reform and development in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ‘Can new leadership transform the DRC’s fortunes?’...

There will be “an extraordinary, extended” debate in the National Assembly (NA) when Parliament reconvenes next month, speaker Thandi Modise has decreed, putting aside...