Africa, World

Sudanese authorities and rebel groups in the western Darfur region have violated a UN Security Council arms embargo, a panel of experts has said. ...

In a preliminary report detailing widespread state violence, including the torture and the unlawful detention of its members, a Zimbabwean social...

The Defense Counsel for the embattled former mayor of KMC, Lawyer Badou S.M. Conteh, had subjected the financial commissioner of the Gambia Scout...

Mr. Willy Joof, Permanent Secretary No. 1 at the Department of State for Foreign Affairs, has been removed from office with immediate effect,...

Hon. Bala Garba Jahumpa, the Gambia’s Ambassador-designate to the Republic of Venezuela who was recently suspected of alleged involvement in a...

When Nouhoum Sangaré left his wife, three children and village in southern Mali for the capital Bamako 240km away, he expected to find stable work...

Swaziland's continuing water crisis is jeopardising more than just food security: foreign investors are threatening to pull out, and employment...

After a series of fruitless negotiations and proposals, sanctions against Anjouan's "illegal authorities" are the African Union's (AU) latest...

IRIN interviewed President Isaias Afewerki in Asmara, on 1 October. Eritrea and the Horn of Africa in general remain chronically vulnerable in...

An estimated 50,000 people who fled violence in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, are living in difficult conditions, with inadequate food, shelter and...