Africa

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Democratic Republic of Congo’s Vice Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Léonard She Okitundu, have discussed issues of mutual interest in Tehran.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Angolan Minister of External Relations Georges Rebelo Chicoti have discussed issues of mutual interest in a meeting in Tehran.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic is prepared to expand its cooperation with all African countries, Senegal in particular.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zairf says the Islamic Republic is ready to cooperate with South Africa in various fields, particularly the fight against terrorism and extremism.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a meeting with his counterpart from Togo voiced Tehran’s willingness to promote its ties with Lomé.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held separate meetings with his Zimbabwean counterpart and Ghanaian vice-president in Tehran.

South African Deputy Foreign Minister Nomaindiya Mfeketo, who is in Tehran for a new round of joint political meetings, has met on Monday with Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and South African Deputy Foreign Minister in a Monday meeting in Tehran discussed ways to promote mutual cooperation.

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has highlighted the role African countries can play in the global fight against terrorism and extremism.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has praised Tunisia as a civilised nation and said there is no barrier to expansion of mutual ties between Tehran and Tunis.

Iranian foreign minister and his Mauritanian counterpart in a meeting on Monday conferred on ways to promote cooperation between the two countries.

Iranian foreign minister and Mauritanian president in a meeting on Monday explored avenues for enhancing mutual cooperation between the two states.

Iranian foreign minister and Algerian prime minister in a meeting in Algiers voiced their countries’ preparedness for expansion of mutual cooperation in different fields.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif slammed regional and world powers for interfering in other nations’ domestic affairs, saying such interventions have only exacerbated the current crises in the Middle East.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has just arrived in the Algerian capital on the first leg of his two-day visit to three North African countries.

Iranian foreign minister will start a two-day tour of three North African states on Sunday, foreign ministry spokesman announced.

A pastor in Zimbabwe who tried replicating the Biblical story of Jesus Christ walking on water has been eaten by crocodiles.

Eighty-three Chibok schoolgirls who were seized three years ago by Boko Haram terrorist group in northern Nigeria have been released from custody, officials declared.

Ten people have been sentenced to death in Egypt for their part in the deaths of more than 70 people at a match between al-Masry and Al Ahly in 2012.

A Nigerian man, who used to be a Muslim preacher, has died at the age of 93 with at least 130 wives.

A young Zambian woman named Charity Mumba has caused a storm on social media, after marrying a “wealthy” 92-year-old white South African man.

In a move to avoid detection, female suicide bombers in Nigeria blow themselves up while carrying babies.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has welcomed a peaceful power transfer in the Gambia hours after the West African country’s former President Yahya Jammeh left the country following 22 years in power.

Iran lost a great revolutionary figure and the Muslim world an astute politician, said the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in a letter to his Iranian counterpart on death of Iran’s ex-president Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani.

South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has called on South Africans not to visit Israel in order to show solidarity with the people of Palestine.