Nairobi: Conservationists are working to rescue giraffes stranded on an island in Lake Boringo in western Kenya after heavy rains led to the...
Nairobi: Conservationists are working to rescue giraffes stranded on an island in Lake Boringo in western Kenya after heavy rains led to the...
Tunis - Tunisia on Sunday extended a night-time curfew until the end of the year in a bid to tackle spiking novel coronavirus...
ACCRA, Ghana: Ghanaians head to the polls for general elections on Dec. 7 that many contend will be a close race between the...
NAIROBI, Kenya: Africa’s top public health official says 60% of the continent’s population needs to be vaccinated against the coronavirus in the next...
Lagos: Police in Nigeria have rescued 10 people, including four children, four pregnant women and two other women from an illegal maternity home,...
Addis Ababa: Rockets launched from Ethiopia's northern Tigray region targeted the capital of Eritrea several hours after Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared...
Addis Ababa: Heavy shelling struck the capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region on Saturday, the local government and humanitarian sources said, as the city...
Johannesburg - The World Health Organization on Thursday urged African countries to improve their capacity to vaccinate populations against Covid-19, warning the continent...
OUAGADOUGOU: Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore won re-election at a Nov. 22 poll with 57.87% of the vote, according to full preliminary results...
DAKAR, Senegal: Al-Qaida’s North African branch said it has appointed a new leader after confirming the death of its former chief, who was...
Nouakchott: Mauritania's former president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, the West African state's first democratically elected president, died overnight, his family members and the...
OUAGADOUGOU: Polls opened in Burkina Faso on Sunday in a presidential election dominated by jihadist violence, which has cost over 2,000 lives this...
LAGOS/ABUJA: Nigeria has slipped into a recession after its gross domestic product contracted for the second consecutive quarter, according to data released on...
Total coronavirus cases in Africa surpassed the 2 million mark on Wednesday despite the slow addition of reported infections compared to other regions...
Mogadishu: Two people died on Tuesday in Somalia's capital Mogadishu after a suicide bomber blew himself up in a restaurant near a police...
Addis Ababa: Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government said on Monday it had captured another town in the northern Tigray region after nearly...
Addis Ababa: Gunmen killed at least 34 people in a "gruesome" attack on a passenger bus in west Ethiopia, a part of the...
Addis Ababa: Two airports in Ethiopia's Amhara state which neighbours Tigray where federal troops are fighting local forces were targeted by rocket fire...
