Burkina Faso is investigating killings in two northern villages in February, a government spokesperson said on Saturday, dismissing a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report about the Burkinabe army’s alleged execution of 223 people there.
Aid shipments to Gaza from Cyprus resumed late on Friday, a Cypriot source said, with a ship carrying food to the besieged Palestinian enclave after a pause following Israel's killing of seven aid workers.
The South African (SA) Electoral Court has elucidated the grounds for rejecting the objections against the inclusion of former President Jacob Zuma on the Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) party's candidate list for the upcoming elections.
Following the announcement of the results of the first democratic election 30 years ago, the South African first Parliament under the democratic dispensation assembled.
Sierra Leone's Energy Minister Kanja Sesay resigned on Friday over a weeks-long electricity crisis, the same day the government announced it had paid some of the tens of millions of dollars it owed to energy providers.
South Africa (SA) celebrates a significant milestone in its history, the 30th anniversary of the first democratic elections that marked the end of apartheid.
The United Nations is increasingly concerned about a possible imminent attack on al-Fashir in Sudan's North Darfur region and is seeking to reduce tensions in the area, a United Nations (UN) Spokesperson said on Friday.
Support for South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) has fallen to just over 40%, an Ipsos opinion poll showed, weeks before a general election that could usher in the biggest political change since the end of the apartheid era.