GENEVA – Every year, more than 1.3 million people die in road traffic crashes and 50 million are injured. One person dies every 24 seconds because of a crash. U.N. agencies are now urging policymakers to lower speed limits in a bid to cut traffic deat…

PRETORIA, The South African government has introduced a new green paper on marriages that allows polyandry in the country.Polyandry is an arrangement when one woman is allowed to marry more than one husband.This week, MPs started deliberations on the n…

JOHANNESBURG – In the wake of the days-long attack by Islamic extremist rebels on the northern Mozambican city of Palma at the end of March, a private military group contracted by the Mozambican military denies charges that it gave preference to whites…

NAIROBI – Ethiopia has again delayed its national election after some opposition parties said they wouldn’t take part and as conflict in the country’s Tigray region means no vote is being held there, further complicating Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s eff…

HARARE, ZIMABABWE – Zimbabwe’s High Court has ordered the country’s chief justice to step down after he reached 70 years of age, despite a recent constitutional amendment that appears to allow him to serve five more years.The court’s ruling Saturday ca…

KINSHASA, D.R.C. – Thirty people were sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Saturday for their role in anti-police violence marking the end of Ramadan in the capital, Kinshasa.A policeman was killed Thursday as rival Muslim grou…