Mo Farah says turning his attention to running marathons has helped him get his mojo back as he prepares to take on world record-holder Eliud Kipchoge on the streets of London on Sunday. Four-time Olympic champion Farah turned his back on the track in 2017 to concentrate on long-distance road running, finishing third in London last year and clai ...

Reacting to the news that Equatorial Guinea rsquo;s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema will propose a draft law to abolish the death penalty, Marie-Evelyne Petrus Barry, Amnesty International West and Central Africa Director said: This presidential announcement is a welcome move and, if the death penalty is abolished in Equatorial Guinea, t ...

Tens of thousands of protesters converged from all directions on Sudan 39;s army headquarters Thursday after calls for a million-strong demonstration to demand the ruling military council cede power. The day after three council members resigned following talks with protest organisers, demonstrators flocked towards the central Khartoum si ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping sought Friday to ease growing concerns about his ambitious Belt and Road Initiative, vowing to prevent debt risks and saying his global infrastructure project is not an exclusive club . Xi made his remarks at a summit on his signature foreign policy, which aims to reinvent the ancient Silk Road to connect Asia ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Mozambican authorities Thursday to prosecute perpetrators accused of sexually exploiting some of the tens of thousands of women who were affected by Cyclone Idai, in exchange for food and aid. The velocity of Cyclone Idai, which hit March 14, blew away electricity power lines and trees, levelled many homes and ...

Six people died Thursday when a passenger ship with more than 60 people on board sank as it was on its regular route between the islands of Sao Tome and Principe, off west Africa, officials said. Fifty-five people were rescued and six people died, the head of the regional government on Principe island, Jose Cardoso Cassandra, told AFP. ...

In a disused football stadium in the Yemeni city of Aden, hundreds of African migrants find themselves in limbo -- banned from onward travel, but unable to return home. The majority from Ethiopia, the migrants are facing tough conditions after being confined to the stadium in the government bastion, according to the United Nations 39; migr ...

Xolani Zingeni plays scales on his violin overlooking a muddy courtyard as his teenage sister washes laundry in a bathtub and his great-grandmother carefully hangs it on a washing line. When I play it helps me to forget about the situation I am in, says the 16-year-old South African. Xolani lives a precarious life shuttling between hi ...

The CAF Champions League semi-finals this weekend will feature an all-star cast of the last four winners, TP Mazembe, Mamelodi Sundowns, Wydad Casablanca and Esperance. Wydad face Sundowns in Rabat this Friday, Esperance meet Mazembe in Rades the following day and both second legs are scheduled for next Saturday. It is the first time si ...

Six women, the Throttle Queens, are traveling across East Africa on motorbikes to raise awareness of road safety issues in the region. The six Kenyans have spent the past week on an epic journey across East Africa that started in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Good Friday. The bikers have passed through Kampala and Kigali, spreading the word abou ...

Since 2007, the non-profit TEAM organisation has been able to support 18 schools and orphanages, and over three thousand schoolchildren in Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon and Senegal. A new crowd-funding campaign aims to raise 18,000 euros to finance school supplies and build toilets, water towers and classrooms. Majirus Fansi was born in a remot ...

S atilde;o Tom eacute;, 24 April 2019 nbsp; ndash; The global measles crisis is an urgent wake-up call to the need for countries to ensure that all children ndash; no matter where they live ndash; receive life-saving vaccines. Countries in the African Region have also experienced a res ...

Hundreds of protesters packed in a train arrived in Khartoum Tuesday from a central Sudanese town to join a sit-in outside the army headquarters demanding military rulers step down. Many protesters perched on the roof of the train, waving Sudanese flags as it chugged through north Khartoum's Bahari railway station before winding its way to the p ...

Hundreds of protesters arrived on a packed train in Khartoum Tuesday to join a weeks-long sit-in outside army headquarters, as a top US official reiterated Washington's backing for demands the country's military council hand power to a civilian government. But African leaders meeting in Cairo insisted on the need for more time for a transition ...

Nobel Peace Prize laureates Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege called Tuesday for justice for victims of sexual violence in conflict zones, as the UN Security Council approved a watered-down resolution largely stripped of substance by the United States and Russia. The vote on the German-drafted resolution was held after intense last minute negot ...

Residents of deposed Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir's home village are still coming to terms with his ouster, but most agree that the time had come for him to go. I'm from his village and I did not benefit from his rule, said Mohamedali Abdel Hamid, a farmer from Hosh Bannaga dressed in a traditional Sudanese robe. The village, on the Ni ...

South Africa's first all-race vote 25 years ago turned the page on an oppressive system of racial segregation called apartheid that for roughly 50 years privileged whites over blacks. Here is a reminder. Races apart Apartheid -- an Afrikaans-language word meaning the state of apartness -- became official government policy in 194 ...

A group of 12 Germans who were injured in a deadly Madeira bus crash headed home on Saturday aboard a German medically-equipped military plane, an AFP reporter said. Their tourist bus crashed on the Portuguese holiday island on Wednesday, killing 29 passengers, all of them German. Of the 16 injured survivors of the crash, 14 were also German. ...

Ady Namaran Coulibaly, a holder of a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Studies from the Ghana Institute of Journalism and a student at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria undertook field research in Maseru, Lesotho from 8 to 12 April 2019. This was part of requirements for the MPhil in Human Rights and Democratisation prog ...

Hawwa Yousef is still haunted by memories of the day when mounted gunmen swept through her village in Sudan's Darfur region in 2004, killing scores of villagers including her son. Then president Omar al-Bashir unleashed the notorious Janjaweed militia on ethnic minority villages like hers in a scorched earth campaign to eradicate support for reb ...