JOHANNESBURG: South African police were negotiating with Grace Mugabe’s lawyers on Tuesday to get the wife of the Zimbabwean president to turn herself...
JOHANNESBURG: South African police were negotiating with Grace Mugabe’s lawyers on Tuesday to get the wife of the Zimbabwean president to turn herself...
KISUMU, Kenya: A six-month-old girl has died in Kenya, her doctor told Reuters on Tuesday, after her parents said she was teargassed and...
Ouagadougou: Seventeen people have been killed and a dozen injured in a "terrorist attack" on a restaurant in Burkina Faso's capital, the government...
LAGOS, Nigeria: President Muhammadu Buhari, who has been away in London to treat an undisclosed ailment since May 7, has said he is...
Nairobi: Tensions remained high in Kenya on Sunday after 11 people died in violent protests and the opposition stood by its demand that...
JUBA, South Sudan: For the past two weeks, Sandy has slept on the dirty floor of a small and stuffy tent, squeezed in...
Nairobi: Two people have been shot dead in Kenya in angry opposition protests which flared up again Saturday after the hotly disputed election...
Kisumu, Kenya: Immediately after news broke that President Uhuru Kenyatta had been re-elected as Kenya's president, people took to the streets across the...
JOHANNESBURG: South African President Jacob Zuma again survived a no-confidence vote in parliament Tuesday in the most serious attempt yet to unseat him...
DAKAR: Children in conflict-ravaged central Democratic Republic of Congo are suffering ‘terrible acts of abuse’, having been forced into armed groups, drugged and...
DAKAR: Escalating militia violence and a surge in attacks on aid workers in northern Mali are restricting the delivery of food and healthcare...
Nairobi: At the Machakos bus station in Nairobi, hundreds of people are bumping into each other, tickets held firmly on one hand, the...
Nouakchott: Counting began on Saturday in Mauritania after a referendum on constitutional changes sought by President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who derided the...
Kigali: Rwandans yesterday celebrated the third term victory of President Paul Kagame who pledged to continue transforming the nation after winning re-election with...
KIGALI: Incumbent leader Paul Kagame has swept to a landslide victory in Rwanda’s presidential election, results showed early on Saturday, securing a third...
PRETORIA: A South African tourist who was kidnapped in 2011 by al Qaeda while travelling in Mali has been released and is back...
Dakar: Senegal voted in a tense general election Sunday, with ex-president Abdoulaye Wade accusing his successor of engineering problems with the ballot to...
MOGADISHU: A car bomb went off on a busy street in the Somali capital on Sunday, sending huge cloud of smoke into the...