The opposition in Madagascar on Tuesday petitioned the country's top court to unseat 18 of its lawmakers who crossed the floor to join the ruling party. The move comes just days after the same Constitutional Court ordered President Hery Rajaonarimampianina to form a unity government in a bid to end a political crisis that has plagued the island ...

The head of the Indian Ocean state of the Comoros, President Azali Assoumani, intends to seek re-election next year if constitutional changes are approved in an upcoming referendum, his spokesman confirmed on Tuesday. Azali, 59, a former colonel who won the last election in 2016, is serving a single five-year term, allowed under the current cons ...

Ten people were beheaded in a village in northern Mozambique, police said on Tuesday, as local sources blamed the attack on Islamists. The pre-dawn attack on Sunday occurred in two small villages close to the border with Tanzania and not far from Palma, a small town gearing up to be the country's new natural gas hub in the northern province of C ...

Mamoudou Gassama, the 22-year-old Malian Spiderman feted for saving a child hanging from a balcony, took his first step toward French citizenship Tuesday and joined the fire brigade as accolades continued to pour in over his daring rescue. Video footage of Gassama scaling four storeys of the building with his bare hands has catapulted the youn ...