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Democratic Republic of Congo authorities should fully and impartially investigate killings by alleged Congolese army soldiers in the central Kasai area, Human Rights Watch said...

A Ghanaian lawmaker, Mubarak Muntaka on Friday called on Ghanaians and Africans to boycott South African products and companies over the ongoing xenophobic attacks...

Aid agencies must get food to close to 3 million people by July to avert a famine in Africa's Lake Chad region caused by...

Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korea's leader, was killed by a highly toxic nerve agent, says Malaysia. Mr Kim died last week after two...

Senegalese authorities have arrested two suspected foreign jihadists in Dakar, including one who had been in contact with the mastermind of an attack on an Ivory Coast hotel a year ago.

Ex-Gambian Spy Chief, Yankuba Badjie, has officially been charged with the death of a top political figure, Ebrima Solo Sandeng.

South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has condemned acts of violence between citizens and non-nationals, his office said on Friday.

A new report by Amnesty International highlights 2016 as an awful year for human rights, with war crimes committed across the world, refugees being scapegoated and global powers failing to rise to the challenge.

Zimbabwe has deployed army medics to work at major public hospitals following a week-long strike by junior doctors who are demanding an increase in...

Pope Francis called on Wednesday for urgent humanitarian aid for the starving people of South Sudan, saying millions risked being "condemned to death" by a famine in parts of the war-ravaged country.