Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema has pardoned 81 prisoners, including 30 political opponents jailed for sedition, according to a decree seen by AFP on Thursday. We grant pardons to people condemned, or serving sentences for offences against the government, against public order or against recognised authorities, said the presid ...

Time-worn and weather-beaten, the MV Mbita III tilts slightly to the left as it creaks out of its Kenyan port on Lake Victoria. There's no problem, smiles the ferry captain, Eric Charles, as he heads into the calm waters of Africa's largest lake, which lies within three countries, carrying only a few dozen passengers and vehicles. But on th ...

In normal times, African countries would have loudly saluted the choice of Rwanda's Louise Mushikiwabo as head of the world community of French-speaking countries. Instead, her nomination -- set to be enshrined at a summit of the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF) in Armenia on Thursday and Friday -- has met with tight lips or m ...