World / Africa

Lagos: Health workers in Nigeria on Wednesday began a mass vaccination programme to try to halt a mass outbreak of meningitis that has...

NAIROBI: Kenya’s electoral body on Monday said the opposition's plan to hold parallel vote tallying in Aug. 8 presidential election was illegal. Opposition...

KHARTOUM: The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) has distributed humanitarian aid to 1,300 South Sudanese refugees in Sudan. The aid was distributed...

HARARE, Zimbabwe: The World Food Programme (WFP) and Zimbabwe’s government launched a $253 million, five-year plan to end hunger on Monday, amid claims...

LUSAKA: One man was killed in a confrontation between Zambia police and supporters of the five opposition political parties who attempted to attend...

MOGADISHU: A Turkish delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak arrived in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday.  Kaynak and his delegation...

Abuja: Three suicide bombers have been killed in two foiled suicide attacks in the outskirts of the Borno State capital, Maiduguri in northeastern...

Johannesburg:  South Africa's main opposition party said on Sunday that it had charged a provincial leader with misconduct after she posted on Twitter...

NAIROBI, Kenya: A Kenyan court Friday temporarily blocked a government move to hire foreign doctors from Tanzania and Cuba in the wake of...

ARU, Democratic Republic of Congo: The UN human rights office in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Friday it knows of 23 mass...

JOHANNESBURG: South African President Jacob Zuma replaced several high-profile ministers in a cabinet reshuffle announced Friday, leading to a five-percent drop in the...

Kano, Nigeria: Boko Haram Islamists have abducted 22 girls and women in two separate raids in northeast Nigeria, residents and vigilantes told AFP...

JOHANNESBURG: President Jacob Zuma’s midnight sacking of his finance minister shook South African markets on Friday, undermining his authority and threatening to split...

Johannesburg:  South African President Jacob Zuma has come under fire from both his own party and the opposition over a cabinet reshuffle in...

Addis Ababa: The Ethiopian parliament on Thursday extended the country's state of emergency by four months, national broadcaster EBC reported, two weeks after...

JOHANNESBURG: Former South African anti-apartheid hero Ahmed Kathrada was laid to rest at the Westpark Cemetery in Johannesburg on Wednesday. Kathrada died on...

LAGOS, Nigeria: The leader of Boko Haram is “on the run”, Defense Minister Mansur Dan-Ali said Tuesday in a break with the government’s...

ARU, Democratic Republic of Congo: Police on Tuesday confirmed the discovery of the bodies of two Europeans and one Congolese in the Central...