With up to 6,000 fighters, JNIM is now the most well-armed militant force in the Sahel — and among the most powerful in the world, officials and experts say.

It’s getting harder to ignore—some of the world’s biggest cities are slowly turning into places people might no longer want ...

Since Sierra Leone’s independence in 1961, it had been the ambition of the leadership of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), including the ...

A silent shift is lifting an entire continent — and scientists have just uncovered the hidden force driving it.

Even with a decline in murders in the Western Cape, parts of Cape Town are high-risk murder zones and remain among South Africa’s most dangerous, according to the latest quarterly crime statistics.

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African countries confront vast economic ... methodological perspective and several operational avenues to bolster and modernize the financing that cities urgently require. The financing of urban ...

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s top law enforcement official said Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump wrongly claimed that a video he showed in the Oval Office was of burial sites for ...

"If you're a farmer in South Africa, you are three times more likely to be murdered than a policeman, and a policeman is twice as likely to be murdered or killed than a civilian, which means the most ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump will host South Africa’s leader at the White House on Wednesday for a meeting that might be tense after Trump accused the country’s government ...

JOHANNESBURG — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa walked into an ambush when he met President Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday. After a cordial beginning, where Ramaphosa was at pains to ...