Lagos: Nigeria said on Wednesday it had intercepted an illegal cache of arms at the port in Lagos, five months after a similar...
Lagos: Nigeria said on Wednesday it had intercepted an illegal cache of arms at the port in Lagos, five months after a similar...
Lagos: One of Nigeria's most prominent traditional rulers is facing a legal challenge to his right to be king, in a fresh controversy...
Bouaké, Ivory Coast: Three people were killed when police clashed Tuesday with former rebels who had blocked the road into Bouake, Ivory Coast's...
JUBA, South Sudan: South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation blighted by over three years of brutal civil war, closed its southern border with...
JUBA, South Sudan: President Salva Kiir on Monday officially launched a much-awaited national dialogue initiative but barred his former deputy Riek Machar from...
Nairobi: German broadcaster Deutsche Welle on Monday demanded the immediate release of its Burundian correspondent who was arrested last week in the Democratic...
ALGIERS: Three Algerian officers were killed in a helicopter crash east of the capital Algiers on Sunday, according to the country’s defense ministry....
Abidjan: Africans are seeing a steady improvement in the quality of their lives, with some countries even nearing world averages, says a wide-ranging...
LAGOS, Nigeria: Nigerian government on Saturday reunited the 82 Chibok schoolgirls with their parents, two weeks after they were freed from their Boko...
NAIROBI, Kenya: The family of a soldier held by al-Qaeda-linked militants for over a year begged for his release on Saturday after terrorists...
BENGHAZI, Libya: The head of eastern Libya’s largest tribe was killed on Friday when a car bomb exploded outside a mosque on the...
LAGOS, Nigeria: Three suicide bombers on Friday detonated explosives inside a university campus in Nigeria’s northeastern state. The incident took place in Maiduguri...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: Ethiopia rejected Friday a European Parliament resolution calling for the release of "all arbitrarily detained persons" including prominent opposition politician...
LAGOS, Nigeria: At least $15 billion meant for purchasing military hardware have been diverted through a fraudulent and obscure arms procurement process between...
NAIROBI: An unidentified man threw a grenade into a house in Burundi's capital late on Wednesday, killing three people believed to be members...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: The Ethiopian Federal High Court has sentenced 23 individuals for up to 15 years in prison for plotting terror attacks...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: The Ethiopian Federal High Court has sentenced 23 individuals for up to 15 years in prison for plotting terror attacks...
MOGADISHU, Somalia: At least 11 people, including women and children, died over the last two days and more than 30 people were also...