Southern Africa

The chances of South African President Jacob Zuma's ex-wife, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, becoming the next leader of the African National Congress were given a boost...

Germany was sued for damages in the United States on Thursday by descendants of the Herero and Nama people of Namibia, for what they...

Mutinta Musokotwane-Chikopela, a mother says there are already too many holidays in Zambia. Photo Credit: BBCDiscussing female menstruation publicly is something of a taboo...

Zambia's President Edgar Lungu has called in the air force to help contain an invasion of army worms in maize fields, his spokesman has...

 Afonso Dhlakama of the Mozambican Resistance Movement (RENAMO) speaking to the media after voting in Maputo in 2014. Photo Credit: ReutersThe people of Mozambique...

Zimbabwean First Lady Grace Mugabe has reportedly been embroiled in yet another controversy after it emerged that she allegedly used the country's animals to...

A South African soldier on a United Nations mission is reported to have been killed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Monday.Two...

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was confirmed on Saturday as his party's sole candidate for the next presidential election in 2018, when he will be...

Maxence Melo, a director of Jamii Forums message boards. Photo Credit: JAMII FORUMSThe co-founder of a Tanzanian whistle-blowing website has been charged with obstructing an...

A former Guantanamo prisoner who was resettled in Uruguay but has asked to leave flew to South Africa on Thursday as a tourist, a...