The daughter of the long-serving president of Cameroon has caused uproar and embarrassed her father by coming out as a lesbian and attacking the African...

The most obvious qualification of South Africa’s new sports and culture minister is that he once owned a string of nightclubs. Yet Gayton McKenzie, a...

For 26 years, a small window behind a rusted grill was Omar bin Omran’s only connection to the outside world. The teenager went missing in 1998 and although...

The party of Robert Mugabe will rule Zimbabwe “until donkeys grow horns”, the country’s army commander has pledged. Lieutenant General Anselem Sanyatwe said...

Kenyan government officials have long enjoyed lavish lobster dinners, jet-setting jaunts and luxury watches, but, as protests rage across the country,...

When Jenerika Namoru, holding the hand of her five-year-old child, walked into a large tent erected in the blistering heat of Kenya’s arid countryside, every...

Back in February, Boblenny Mang’oi — a graduate in agricultural engineering from one of Kenya’s top universities — heard that Nairobi council was looking for...

Twenty rhinos on a reserve in South Africa had nuclear material implanted in their horns this week as part of a new project aimed at fighting poaching....

The president of Kenya is to scrap the finance bill that led to a wave of unrest that ended in an assault on parliament and the shooting dead of up to 23...

Decades as South Africa’s most prominent and divisive female politician have not slowed Helen Zille down — anything but. Her latest role, as co-signatory on a...