Geneva: Surging violence in Central African Republic has killed hundreds and forced some 88,000 people to flee their homes since the beginning of...
Geneva: Surging violence in Central African Republic has killed hundreds and forced some 88,000 people to flee their homes since the beginning of...
Luanda: Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has been dogged by reports of poor health, has returned to Luanda after nearly a...
Onitsha, Nigeria: Shops, schools and businesses were shut in southeast Nigeria on Tuesday, 50 years to the day since an independent republic of...
Juba: A South Sudan military court on Tuesday opened the trial of 13 soldiers accused of raping foreign aid workers and murdering a...
Abuja: Nigeria's ailing president was glaringly absent on Monday as his deputy marked their two years in power, with no word on the...
Al-Hoceima, Morocco: Protesters have rallied for a third night running in Morocco's city of Al-Hoceima, in a northern region of the country where...
GENEVA: Nearly 500 refugees are feared drowned after a wooden boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea between Libya and Italy, the UN migration...
Nairobi: Five police officers were killed Thursday when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Kenya in an attack claimed by Shabaab Islamists...
Lusaka: Zambia is considering a proposal to move its capital from fast-developing Lusaka to a nearly uninhabited marshland district in the centre of...
MOGADISHU, Somalia: At least five people including a mother and her child were killed in a car bomb attack targeting a small restaurant...
NAIROBI, Kenya: Five police officers attached to a Kenyan government official were killed Wednesday after their vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device...
ARU, Democratic Republic of Congo: An estimated 400,000 children in the Democratic Republic of Congo are at risk of severe acute malnutrition as...
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania: At least nine people were reportedly killed Wednesday when a violent sandstorm tore through Mauritania’s Saharan Tagant region. Several people were...
TUNIS: The governor of Tunisia’s southern Tataouine province, which in recent weeks has been rocked by escalating popular demonstrations, abruptly announced his resignation...
ROME: At least 34 migrants, most of them toddlers, drowned on Wednesday, as coastguard boats and other vessels tried to save hundreds of...
NAIROBI, Kenya: Three police officers were killed by a roadside bomb in northern Kenya on Wednesday, police said. The officers’ Toyota Land Cruiser...
GENEVA: Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus from Ethiopia was elected as the new director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva on Tuesday....
MAROUA, Cameroon: Three suicide bombers were killed on Tuesday morning near a market in Cameroon's Far North Region, military officials said. "Suicide bombers...
