Africa

Sudan prepared to take two further steps in its transition towards civilian rule Wednesday with the swearing-in of a new...

Soldiers guard positions near the Naaba Koom military base in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. REUTERS/Arnaud Brunet The death toll from an...

Edwin Cameron, 66, who hung up his gown after 25 years of serving as a judge, won widespread praise for...

Ten Cameroonian separatists have reportedly been handed life sentences by a military court sitting in the capital, Yaounde. The convicts...

A military court in Cameroon on Tuesday handed a life sentence to the head of the country’s anglophone separatist movement,...