MAROUA, Cameroon: At least eight people have been killed in a suicide attack in Cameroon’s Far North Region, officials said Thursday. The attack...
MAROUA, Cameroon: At least eight people have been killed in a suicide attack in Cameroon’s Far North Region, officials said Thursday. The attack...
JOHANNESBURG: Some 100 people were reportedly killed in intense fighting that broke out Tuesday in the Central African Republic (CAR), local media and...
Geneva: The UN voiced alarm Wednesday at the many Nigerian refugees returning from Cameroon to Banki, a border town clouded by Boko Haram...
Juba: A famine that was declared in parts of South Sudan four months ago is over, UN aid agencies said Wednesday, but extreme...
ROME/TUNUSIA: At least 126 people are missing after a boat carrying migrants sank off the Libyan coast, the International Organization for Migration (IOM)...
KHARTOUM: A prominent Sudanese journalist declared a one-man strike Monday to protest the confiscation of his newspaper -- for the third consecutive day...
Mali said four guests and one member of the security forces died in a militant attack on a resort popular with foreigners on...
Maiduguri, Nigeria: At least 16 people were killed in suicide bomb attacks near a camp for those made homeless by Boko Haram violence...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Five female suicide bombers killed 12 people and wounded 11 in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, birthplace of the Islamist militant Boko...
BAMAKO: A luxury resort popular with Western expatriates outside Mali's capital Bamako came under attack by gunmen on Sunday, the Security Ministry said....
TRIPOLI, Libya: More than 900 refugees were picked up Friday by the Libyan coast guard on the Mediterranean Sea, according to a local...
DAKAR, Senegal: Marking the Dakar mayor's 100 days in jail, thousands of his supporters gathered in the Senegalese capital with signs that read...
NAIROBI, Kenya: Four people, including a government official, were killed in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) attack Friday in the northern Kenyan town...
Mogadishu: A suicide car bombing and assault by Shabaab militants on two neighbouring restaurants in Somalia's capital Mogadishu ended Thursday morning with 18...
Maseru, Lesotho: The estranged wife of Lesotho's incoming prime minister was gunned down just two days before his inauguration, his party and police...
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania: Officials in Tanzania are to start seizing unused land and hand it over to poor farmers in a bid...
LUSAKA: Zambia's parliament suspended 48 opposition lawmakers on Tuesday for boycotting a speech by the president, widening a political rift that has alarmed...
LAGOS, Nigeria: Nigeria’s Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday assented to the country's 2017 budget, exactly one month after the parliament passed the...
