KHARTOUM: The Sudanese government on Saturday denied claims by a prominent rebel group that it violated the terms of a countrywide cease-fire last...
KHARTOUM: The Sudanese government on Saturday denied claims by a prominent rebel group that it violated the terms of a countrywide cease-fire last...
Bukavu, DR Congo: Troops shot dead 18 Burundian refugees in clashes in Kamanyola in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials in the...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: The leaders of eastern Ethiopia's Oromia and Somali regional states are working jointly to defuse the ongoing conflict in the...
LONDON: Your afternoon chocolate bar may be fuelling climate change, destroying protected forests and threatening elephants, chimpanzees and hippos in West Africa, research...
San José: The UN agency for migration is trying to improve "terrible" conditions for migrants detained in Libya, and repatriate those willing and...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Some 17 million people require humanitarian assistance in Africa’s Lake Chad Basin area, with about 8.5 million in the northeast Nigeria...
MOGADISHU: Heavy fighting erupted on Monday in the Somali border town of Balad Hawo near Kenya after Al Shabaab detonated a suicide car...
JOHANNESBURG: Five lions are on the loose in a rural area about 35 miles (60 km) west of South Africa’s commercial capital of...
Harare: President Robert Mugabe yesterday accused a recently launched opposition alliance seeking to unseat him in next year’s elections of plotting with Western...
JOHANNESBURG: Uber says South Africa's government must do more to prevent taxi driver violence after at least one vehicle using the ride-hailing app...
MOGADISHU, Somalia: Somalia's Chief Justice Ibrahim Iidle Saleeban on Tuesday suspended 18 judges in the capital Mogadishu, in response to public complaints about...
Johannesburg: South African President Jacob Zuma endured fresh criticism Tuesday as opposition parties pursued a court case to impeach him and parliament debated...
NAIROBI: Kenyan authorities have ruled that a weekend fire at a dormitory in the capital Nairobi that left nine girls dead was the...
British public relations firm Bell Pottinger’s chief executive James Henderson has resigned ahead of the release of an independent report on the work...
Katiola, Ivory Coast: Almost 100 inmates escaped from a prison in the Ivory Coast on Sunday, the latest in a string of jail...
Nairobi: Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday lashed out at the judiciary for overturning his re-election, and refused opposition demands to replace the...
Kenya’s Supreme Court on Friday declared President Uhuru Kenyatta’s election win invalid due to irregularities committed by the election board and ordered a...
CAPE TOWN: South African President Jacob Zuma’s first appearance in parliament since he survived a no-confidence move three weeks ago led to rowdy...
