Back in 2012, pressure on Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s president, by donor countries including America preceded a swift ouster from Goma of M23 by UN peacekeepers. That scenario seems less likely this time ...

Zimbabwean art historian Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti travelled by road to five southern African countries – Botswana, the ...

Fifteen of the world’s top Lego builders have been invited to showcase their unique creations at the annual Masterpiece ...

Lesotho's King Letsie III has embarked on an ambitious mission in snowy Davos, where global powerbrokers have converged, to ...

Police were widely condemned for the months-long operation in which they cut off food and water supplies to the miners ...

Some parties in the coalition government are considering going to court to challenge the law. The contribution of hundreds of mostly black servicemen had gone unrecognised until now. King Misuzulu ...

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A Lesotho national has been arrested in connection with the murders of two South African constables during a house robbery.

They said the vast majority were foreign nationals from Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Lesotho and in South Africa illegally. One ...

A total of 78 bodies and 166 survivors - some of them emaciated and disorientated - have been hauled out so far in a ...

After the tweet spread, others began using the same map of South America as surreal punchlines to jokes. User @GRAVEMINDS posted a joke that gained over 30 retweets and 130 likes (shown below, left).

After independence, internal divisions between the wealthier north and less-developed south triggered decades of violent conflict, including two civil wars. The second Sudanese civil war ...