A South African serial rapist - who assaulted children as young as nine years old - has received 42 life sentences.

Restrictions on importing pork to the Isle of Man from Europe are set to come into effect in a bid to minimise the risk posed ...

Malian musician Fatoumata Diawara performs at the Joy of Jazz festival in Sandton, South Africa, on Saturday. Ethiopia's ...

Veteran South African gospel artist Solomon Molokoane, popularly known as Solly Moholo, has died at the age of 65, his ...

The case of two black women who were allegedly shot and fed to pigs by a white farmer and two of his workers has caused ...

A 2018 BBC report from food experts predicted West African food will be "the next big food trend” and a few years later it is ...

African students have told BBC News they now face a dilemma - whether to remain in Lebanon as Israel continues to attack or ...

A court in Tanzania's capital has sentenced four men to life imprisonment for the gang rape and sodomy of a girl under the ...

The illustrious Moo Deng has attracted a frenzy of attention. But in the wild, her species is quietly disappearing.

It was January 1998 and Robert Bourgi was waiting to see the Gabonese president Omar Bongo, in an antechamber at his seaside ...

A Braai - pronounced 'bry' - is the South African equivalent of an American barbecue and a fundamental part of South African ...

Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso have announced a deal with Russia which will see them acquire telecoms and surveillance ...