A dispute between a British-owned tea plantation and a local community in western Kenya has come to the boil in what could be a sign of turbulent times ahead for tea producers facing a growing ...

A Tunisian court handed jail terms of 13 to 66 years to opposition leaders, businessmen and lawyers on charges of conspiring against state security, the state news agency TAP reported on Saturday, ...

Lesotho last week granted a licence to tech billionaire Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet service, hours after denying it was fast-tracking the process as part of US tariff concessions, reports ...

King Mswati III of eSwatini rules over a country in deep political and economic crisis, writes activist and scholar Velaphi Mamba in the Mail & Guardian. He says today, Mswati presides over a nation ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has suspended the political party of former President Joseph Kabila and ordered the seizure of his assets, accusing the 53-year-old of high treason over ...

France has expelled 12 Algerian consular and diplomatic officials and recalled its ambassador in Algiers, the French presidency said last Tuesday, in a retaliatory measure as a spat escalates between ...

The South African Government has paid R31m to six suspended magistrates, ‘who are essentially at home’, chairperson of the Magistrates’ Commission's Ethics Committee, Advocate Naome Manaka, told the ...

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) and the Legal Practitioners Fidelity Fund (LPFF) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at bolstering co-operation in investigating fraud, ...

The Donald Trump administration may shut down nearly 30 US embassies and consulates around the world, including several in Africa, as part of a sweeping plan to reduce the country’s diplomatic ...

Zimbabwe has become the first African country to suspend all tariffs on goods originating in the US after the US imposed 18% tariffs on exports from Zimbabwe. ‘In the spirit of constructing a mutually ...

Malian authorities shut Canadian miner Barrick Gold’s office in the capital Bamako over the alleged non-payment of taxes, according to two sources, Business Day reports. It’s the latest escalation of ...