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.
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.
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.
Tanzania on Tuesday gave a one month ultimatum to foreign employees, employers and employment agents to verify work and residence documents.
The Labour Commissioner said...
Malawi's President Peter Mutharika has dismissed the agriculture minister after an investigation into maize procurement, the southern African nation's information minister said on Wednesday.
A High Court in South Africa has ruled that the government’s move to withdraw from the International Criminal Court was ‘unconstitutional and invalid.
Two top security operatives of former leader of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh have been arrested. Police in the country have also confirmed the arrests which happened on Monday.
The head of Ghana’s parliament has launched a campaign to have the country’s laws amended to permanently ban homosexuality in the country.
The speaker of...
