South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that he will be donating half of his salary to charity.
Mr Ramaphosa said the gesture was aimed...
Venezuela has expelled the senior US representative in the country amid an international backlash against Nicolás Maduro's re-election as president.
Mr Maduro announced the expulsion...
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has apologised to EU lawmakers for the company's role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal and for allowing fake news to...
Zimbabwe has applied to rejoin the Commonwealth - 15 years after they left the group.
Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland said she was delighted to receive...
A South African pastor who blamed the Cape Town drought on “wickedness and homosexuality” has been given a 30-day prison sentence.
Oscar Bougardt was found...
Two Kenyan politicians survive bridge collapse
Two Kenyan politicians have escaped unhurt after a bridge collapsed, according to local media.
Capital FM news site reports that Governor...
The UK has been accused of turning a "blind eye" to Russia's "dirty money", putting national security at risk.
The Commons foreign affairs committee said...
A doctor who slipped an abortion pill into his pregnant girlfriend's tea was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday, however, he will serve only three...
An opposition coalition in Burundi has said it will not accept the results of a referendum on constitutional reforms that could extend President Pierre Nkurunziza's time...
The Royal Family has thanked those who travelled to Windsor for the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Thousands of people lined the streets...
Prince Harry and his new wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, shared a kiss after their wedding ceremony Saturday.
People cheered as the newlyweds locked lips outside...
Oprah Winfrey, the closest person Americans have to a queen, showed up to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s royal wedding on Saturday. Naturally, people...
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta signed a new law on Wednesday that outlaws the abuse of people on social media but which critics say...
US President Donald Trump has contradicted his own national security adviser, saying the so-called "Libya model" for denuclearization is not being pursued with North...
Three people have been arrested in Nigeria for allegedly tying late students to crosses and flogging them with horsewhips on a Nigerian roadside.
The three...
Nigeria levies some of its highest visa fees for American and Saudi Arabian citizens, according to the Abuja-based Daily Trust newspaper.
US nationals pay up to...
North Korea has cancelled Wednesday's high-level talks with South Korea because of anger over its joint military exercises with the US.
The North's official KCNA...
Angry villagers have set fire to police headquarters after a five-year-old girl with albinism was abducted and killed by armed men in Mali.
Djeneba Diarra,...
US First Lady Melania Trump has undergone surgery for what the White House described as a benign kidney condition.
Her office said surgeons had performed...
Shamika Burrage survived a near-fatal car accident two years ago, but not without losing something pretty important: her left ear.
Now, thanks to a novel...
The US has imposed sanctions on six people and three companies it says have ties to Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Treasury Secretary Steven...
Drones that monitor crops, control mosquito populations and deliver defibrillators are to be tested in US airspace.
Ten commercial drone projects have been selected to...
In an attempt to keep Nigerians safe from the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), the Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday directed the Federal Ministry...
