The United Nations rights chief has called on Zambia to stop arbitrary arrests and uphold the rights of all those detained. The statement from UN High Commissioner Volker Türk follows reports of arrests and detention of opposition figures in Zambia before and after Thursday’s election.
South Africa says it’s putting infrastructure development at the centre of its agenda as chair of the Southern African Development Community.
Campaigning for Morocco's legislative election opened on Thursday, with the governing coalition seeking to retain power amid discontent over economic and regional inequalities.
As it seeks to backtrack from the concern, Kenya has warned foreign workers they have 90 days to regularise their status. The foreign minister says the move to regularise the status of foreign workers is not 'discriminatory'.
A man suspected of killing his wife and two daughters in England appeared in a Johannesburg courthouse on Thursday. Ndodana Mkhanyisi Tshuma is a British citizen of Zimbabwean origin; he has admitted unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition.
In the wake of the migrant rush into Spain’s North African exclave of Ceuta back in July, Morocco has insisted there are ‘no facts’ indicating its involvement.
The IFP is demanding the urgent deployment of the KwaZulu-Natal Political Killings Task Team after two of its councillor candidates were gunned down in separate incidents within a space of seven days.
The ANC has doubled down on its claim that the Electoral Commission of SA’s system experienced technical glitches on the day it was meant to submit its list of nominated candidates, which led to the party’s failure to submit candidate lists for certain municipalities.
A bus crash that unfolded on Wednesday in Egypt's Sinai peninsula left 22 dead and injured 28 others; authorities have yet to specify what caused the incident.
Madagascar's former Senate president Richard Ravalomanana was sentenced to 10 years of hard labour on Tuesday after being convicted of complicity in murder over his alleged role in a deadly crackdown on youth-led protests last year.
The suspects, including Mexican, Mozambican, Zimbabwean and South African nationals, face charges related to drug manufacturing, illegal possession of precious metals, illegal possession of hazardous materials and contravention of the Immigration Act
Spanish prosecutors say 23 sexual assault cases, including nine involving children, have been reported in Ceuta since thousands of migrants crossed from Morocco into the Spanish territory at the end of July.
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