Maryam Yahya Ibrahim, sentenced to death for marrying a Christian

Sudanese authorities and U.S. officials in Khartoum are negotiating to allow a Sudanese woman, who married an American and was recently spared the death...
Maryam Yahya Ibrahim, sentenced to death for marrying a Christian

A 27-year-old woman who was sentenced to death in Sudan last month for converting to Christianity from Islam was freed on Monday after what...
President Sata with President Jacob Zuma and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe during the wedding ceremony of Bona Mugabe (second from right), Daughter to Robert Mugabe

South African President Jacob Zuma's health is "fine", his spokesman said on Sunday, playing down a newspaper report that heart problems, diabetes and high...
Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi is the sixth President of Egypt, in office since 8 June 2014

Home Affairs Deputy Minister, Steven Kampyongo says Zambia cherishes the warm relations that it enjoys with Egypt and is happy that stability has returned...
Boko Haram’s attacks continue to detract attention and resources away from the socio-political problems in Nigeria

The propensity for Boko Haram’s violence to be motivated by revenge, combined with the probable latent strike capability of the group in other parts...
Tanzania and Zambia Railway Authority (Tazara)

The High Court, Dar es Salaam zone has ordered the Tanzania and Zambia Railway Authority (Tazara) to compensate its 270 former employees who were...
King Mswati III

Swaziland's King Mswati III has increased his annual household budget for 2014 by more than 10% to $61m, as a large public wage bill...
Hundreds killed in Central African Republic

Muslim rebels stormed a Catholic church compound in the capital of Central African Republic on Wednesday, killing at least 30 people in a hail...