Cotonou: The people watched in horror as the bulldozers moved in. Soon their meagre dwellings were reduced to rubble, becoming homes only to...
Cotonou: The people watched in horror as the bulldozers moved in. Soon their meagre dwellings were reduced to rubble, becoming homes only to...
GOMA: At least 50 people were killed when a train derailed in Congo's southeastern province of Tanganyika in the early hours of Thursday,...
Harare: The body of Zimbabwe's ex-president, Robert Mugabe, arrived home on Wednesday to an honour guard in a country divided over the legacy...
HARARE: The body of former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was expected in the country later on Wednesday, a family spokesman said, but his...
KAMPALA, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has said he wants courts to hand out eye-for-an-eye-style sentences for all murder convicts, to help stem soaring...
HARARE: Zimbabwe's founder Robert Mugabe is proving as polarising in death as he was in life, with a fight over where he will...
NAIROBI/LONDON: Hundreds of African refugees trapped in Libyan detention centres will be evacuated to Rwanda within the next few weeks as part of...
Ouagadougou, Sept 10, 2019 (AFP) - Six policemen have been killed in an attack in northern Burkina Faso, in a region prone to...
Harare: Close relatives and government officials flew out of Zimbabwe on Monday to collect the body of ex-president Robert Mugabe from Singapore where...
RABAT, Morocco: Fourteen people were killed and 29 others injured when a bus overturned on a bridge amid flooding in south-central Morocco, the...
Kinshasa: While youngsters began a new primary school year in DR Congo this week, many parents were left to wonder whether authorities will...
NAIROBI: Thousands of people are being removed from Kenya's largest forest, a senior official said on Thursday, in a controversial move aimed at...
Harare: Robert Mugabe, the former guerrilla hero turned despot who ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years until the military forced him out, has died...
CAPE TOWN: South Africa promised on Thursday to tackle the prejudice fuelling a wave of riots and xenophobic attacks, as growing international anger...
Nairobi: A Tanzanian man has been arrested after authorities found a stash of ivory buried under his house, estimated to come from around...
CAPE TOWN: South Africa has temporarily closed its embassy in Nigeria after threats led to fears for staff safety, Foreign Affairs Minister Naledi...
JOHANNESBURG: Activists have warned of an "epidemic” of violence against women in South Africa after a spate of killings and rapes sparked outrage...
JOHANNESBURG: Pope Francis set off for Mozambique on Wednesday, six months after the poor southern African nation was struck by the worst two...