Two years ago, a mob assaulted Abdou Latifou and threatened to kill him after he was seen kissing the man he loved.

Heidenau council has halted the laying of Stolpersteine installed to remember individual victims of the Nazis

President announces measures amid anger at authorities over recent murders of women

The musical powerhouse has spawned huge hits, but which do its troupers love to belt out – even for the 1,700th time? From Broadway legend Idina Menzel to composer Stephen Schwartz, they reveal all

Seventeen people killed at bar near Johannesburg and 10 killed in separate incident at barbecue venue near Cape Town

ALT: Mid Autumn Festival: Happy Mooncake Rabbit (中秋节快乐)

The Mercury prize winner hasn’t been able to go home since falling ill last summer. In his only interview, he opens up about the ‘poignancy’ of finally releasing the new album his stroke shelved

Known as the ‘energy bars of the sea’ the fish are a key food source for many species, but closing fisheries to allow numbers to recover would cost millions

At Roland Garros airport on Réunion island, the ceiling design funnels a light tropical breeze into the terminal

Taxi boss Oupa Bafana Sindane’s lawyers told the Madlanga Commission he would not be able to appear before it this week because he was engaged in the “sacred ancestral initiation journey of the called Isangoma” – and was “in a period of sacred spiritual seclusion”.

Arrest of Shadrack Sibiya comes as country is reeling from cases of femicide and alleged police corruption and criminality

An Afrikaner family granted refugee status in the US have been denied re-entry after they undertook a quick trip back to South Africa.

The ANC has suffered a defeat in the Electoral Court after judges dismissed the party’s appeal against the Electoral Commission of South Africa.

String of female murder victims found near Johannesburg’s international airport, including five in the past week

Chinese-made panels on rooftops across the world are changing the facts of life for big utilities

Drive to save thousands of Afrikaners from false claims of ‘white genocide’ appears to show signs of slowing

Run by a social enterprise, the six shops operate from shipping containers across Johannesburg’s Alexandra township and sell food and household goods by weight in small, affordable amounts

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

In a government gazette released late on Thursday, 83-year-old Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared his birthday a public holiday.

Senegal must clear 1.956 trillion CFA francs ($3.5 billion) in payment ​arrears as part of efforts to restore its public ‌finances, Prime Minister Ahmadou Al Aminou Lo said on Tuesday.

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At least 176 people have been bitten by Cape fur seals during the marine rabies outbreak along the western and southern coast of South Africa. Scientists warn that the disease is now endemic to this s...

Data mismatches and unreliable phone access prevented some of Ibaji’s poorest residents from accessing aid before floods destroyed farms in 2024.

Claim relating to 1960 attack on hundreds of protesters part of wave of litigation over apartheid crimes in South Africa

Guardian City editor Anna Isaac among those who had credentials to cover event declined

Thousands remain missing and aid is hampered by treacherous conditions in communities almost wiped out of existence

Life returned to normal in Niger's capital on Sunday, a day after mutineers stormed both the presidential palace and a military base at Niamey's main airport, resisting forces loyal to the ruling junt...

His refusal to back down is rooted in Russia’s gangster politics