Inside Africa

The ActionSA president and Johannesburg mayoral candidate, Herman Mashaba, has praised Nigeria for sentencing a South African woman to 40 years in prison for drug trafficking, saying the country was doing...

A South African court sentenced radical left-wing opposition leader Julius Malema to five years in jail on Thursday for firing an assault rifle at a rally eight years ago. Hundreds of red-clad...

Benin presidential election favourite Romuald Wadagni swept to victory in the country’s polls, securing 94 percent of votes, according to provisional results. The electoral commission published the preliminary tally overnight from Monday...