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South Africa’s embattled President Jacob Zuma has resigned from his office with immediate effect. He made the announcement in a televised address to the nation on Wednesday evening. Earlier, Mr Zuma’s governing ANC party told him to step down or face a vote of no confidence in parliament. The 75-year-old has been under increasing pressure to give way to Deputy ...

Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has died in South Africa, a senior official in his MDC party has said. Mr Tsvangirai, 65, a former prime minister, had reportedly been suffering from colon cancer. “He died this evening. The family communicated this to me,” MDC vice president Elias Mudzuri told Reuters. Mr Tsvangirai’s career was marked by a long political ...

Embattled South African President Jacob Zuma will hold a media briefing at 10:00 a.m. local time (0800 GMT) today, local portals including the state-owned SABC reported late Tuesday. This briefing comes barely 24 hours after the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party ordered him to step down as head of state. It remains to be seen whether Zuma will announce his response to ...

A mother has spoken of her relief after a private clinic in Gabon finally released her baby, who was held for months over an unpaid medical bill. Baby Angel’s mother told the BBC her milk had run dry after being separated from the child for the first five months of her life. The case shocked the country, and she gained ...

Two people have been arrested in a raid on the home of the controversial Gupta family in South Africa as part of a government influencing investigation. The wealthy India-born Gupta family have been accused of “state capture” – using their friendship with President Zuma to wield enormous political influence for their business interests. Both Mr Zuma and the Guptas deny ...

At least two Russian fighters were killed in US air strikes in north-eastern Syria last week, their associates have told the BBC. The mercenaries are said to have been hired by private military firms backing Syrian pro-government troops. Russia has not confirmed the deaths that were first reported by US media, saying such reports should not be treated as “primary ...

The United States warned the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday against using an electronic voting system for a long-delayed presidential election in December this year because it has the potential to undermine the credibility of the poll. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told an informal U.N. Security Council meeting on the Congolese electoral process that deploying ...

Egypt’s president Abdel Fatah al-Sisi affirmed to United States (US) Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that his country’s stance towards the Israeli-Palestine peace process is to ‘establish a Palestinian state on the 1967 border, with Eastern Jerusalem as its capital’. In a statement released by the Egyptian Presidential Spokesperson Bassam Radi, president Sisi also called on the U.S. to revive ...

People in downtown Seoul, South Korea were thrilled to see U.S. president Donald Trump hand in hand with his North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walking together and taking selfies. Well, it was not exactly the two men who have been at the throat of each other in a heated diplomacy around nuclear capabilities. It was two lookalikes taking the ...

The Catholic Church in Nigeria says the continued influx of Cameroon refugees into Nigeria’s Cross River State was worsening the poverty situation in host communities. According to Caritas Nigeria, a wing of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN), poor communities were suffering from the burden of hosting fleeing Cameroonians. Head of Caritas Nigeria, Rev. Fr Evaristus Bassey, in a press ...