World / Africa

Ile-Ife, Nigeria: For his whole life, Hausa trader Bashiru Tanko has lived peacefully alongside the Yoruba people of Ile-Ife in southwest Nigeria. Originally...

GENEVA: More than 25,000 people in Somalia have been struck by cholera or acute watery diarrhoea, and the epidemic is expected to double...

LUSAKA, Zambia: Zambian police have denied a major opposition leader access to critical medical care two days after he was teargassed during a...

JOHANNESBURG: South African President Jacob Zuma said he was not stressed by calls for him to resign and urged his supporters to ignore...

LAGOS, Nigeria: Death toll from Nigeria’s meningitis outbreak has hit 489 as authorities race against time to raise over a billion dollars to...

KAMPALA, Uganda: A government minister appeared in court Tuesday charged with soliciting a bribe. Labour, Employment and Industries Minister Kabafunzaki Herbert is said...

Accra: Ghanaians were horrified when members of a vigilante group loosely affiliated with the ruling party stormed a court to free 13 members...

Accra: Ghanaians were horrified when members of a vigilante group loosely affiliated with the ruling party stormed a court to free 13 members...

Geneva: The United Nations warned Tuesday that "the risk of mass deaths from starvation ... is growing" among people in conflict and drought-hit...

LUSAKA: Zambian police in full riot gear were standing watch Tuesday morning in front of opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema’s residency located east of...

NAIROBI, Kenya: Fifteen al-Shabaab terrorists were killed and many injured in an ambush attack by security forces in Somalia, the Kenyan military has...

KAMPALA, Uganda: A female university researcher was remanded in custody on charges of cyber harassment and offensive communication against the country’s President, Yoweri...

Port Harcourt, Nigeria: Gunmen have kidnapped two Turkish nationals from their hotel in southern Nigeria's oil-rich Akwa Ibom state, police said Tuesday in...

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s bourse said on Monday it was investigating certain trades in the hours before former finance minister Pravin Gordhan was recalled...

Lagos: Gunmen have shot dead four policemen, an army captain and a civilian in an attack on a community outside Nigeria's commercial hub...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Two female suicide bombers detonated explosives on the edge of a university campus in northeast Nigeria on Monday, blowing themselves up...

LAGOS, Nigeria: At least four policemen and a soldier were killed Sunday shortly after they rescued some abduction victims from a militants’ hideout...

BELEDHAWO, Somali-Kenyan border: At least 15 people, including soldiers and civilians, were killed and more than five others wounded after a suicide car...