Managua, A day after Nicaragua's government pledged to restore the right to protest, at least four people were hurt and 10 detained during...
Managua, A day after Nicaragua's government pledged to restore the right to protest, at least four people were hurt and 10 detained during...
Nairobi: Burundi has banned the BBC and indefinitely suspended Voice of America, moves that campaigners and the international broadcasters described as a blow...
NAIROBI: Kenya has ordered the closure of the Dadaab refugee camp by the middle of this year with the race now on to...
JOHANNESBURG: Cholera cases in Mozambique among survivors of a devastating cyclone have shot up to 139, officials said, as nearly 1 million vaccine...
WASHINGTON, Investigators into a Boeing 737 MAX crash in Ethiopia that killed 157 people have reached a preliminary conclusion that an anti-stall system...
DAKAR: A quarter of people surveyed in Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola hotspots believed the virus was not real, a study said on...
Moroni, Comoros: Police in Comoros arrested defeated presidential hopeful Soilihi Mohamed on Thursday, a campaign official told AFP, as officers also broke up...
NAIROBI: Thousands of children who survived a cyclone in southeast Africa face fresh risks in its aftermath - being sold into slavery by...
JOHANNESBURG: Raw excrement, condoms and sanitary products regularly spill into homes and parks, South Africans said ahead of Friday's World Water Day -...
LONDON: British couples will be able to include their mothers' names on their marriage certificate under a change in law hailed as a...
JOHANNESBURG: Housing conditions in sub-Saharan Africa have improved dramatically since 2000, but nearly half the urban population still lives in slums, according to...
ROME: The rise of an urban middle class across much of Africa is stoking demand for food that could curb hunger and cut...
BARCELONA: The destruction wrought by Cyclone Idai in southern Africa this month shows weather warnings must spur action and infrastructure has to be...
Johannesburg: Towering piles of oil, tyres, biscuits, microwaves and toilet paper filled a small and damp Johannesburg basement -- all destined for Zimbabwe....
Bambari, Central African Republic: At the market in Awatche in the middle of the Central African Republic, fresh sides of beef hang in...
BEIRA, Mozambique: Dozens of fragile patients poured into a clinic in the wrecked Mozambican port city of Beira on Wednesday, as the government...
WASHINGTON: Nearly one in three people living in West and Central Africa fear losing their homes and land in the next five years,...
BEIRA: About 1.85 million people have now been affected by Cyclone Idai and its aftermath in Mozambique alone, U.N. humanitarian agency OCHA said...
