News from Africa politics

South Africa will defend sovereignty, ANC chair says amid US tensions

Namibian Agriculture Minister Mac-Albert Hengari sacked over rape allegations

Kenya parliament protests: BBC identifies the security forces who shot at anti-tax protesters

Police rescue 33 West Africans from scam that promised jobs in Canada

Sudan’s paramilitaries kill over 30 in a fresh attack on a Darfur city, activists say

Floyd Shivambu condemned for visiting fugitive pastor

Joseph Kabila: DR Congo bans ex-president's PPRD party over alleged M23 links

In Tanzania, Samia’s Facade of Reform Is Crumbling

Doctored clip falsely claims Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta announced new bid for presidency

Tidjane Thiam: Ex-Credit Suisse boss to run for Ivory Coast president

American missionary rescued after alleged abduction in South Africa, police say

Sudan crisis: RSF paramilitaries declare rival government

Germany's Baerbock: Sudan is 'world's largest humanitarian crisis'

Famine and atrocities mount as Sudan's civil war enters its third year

An international conference rallies aid for Sudan after 2 years of war, but peace is elusive

More than 400 killed by rebel group in Sudan says UN

Attack by gunmen leaves at least 40 people dead in Nigeria: President

War in Ethiopia's Tigray region has left many disabled veterans without care

Gabon election: Coup leader Oligui Nguema wins poll by huge margin

A roadside bomb kills 8 bus passengers in northeast Nigeria

At least 100 people killed in attacks on famine-hit camps in Sudan's Darfur, UN official says