LUSAKA, Zambia: A 5.9-magnitude earthquake on Monday night hit the northern province of Zambia, including Kasama, the provincial capital, leaving hundreds injured. Northern...
LUSAKA, Zambia: A 5.9-magnitude earthquake on Monday night hit the northern province of Zambia, including Kasama, the provincial capital, leaving hundreds injured. Northern...
ADDIS ABABA: African countries see the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) as a threat to their internal security and have started taking action against...
LAGOS, Nigeria: Nigeria’s economy shrank by 1.51 percent in the last quarter of 2016 with oil and non-oil sectors suffering persistent declines throughout...
KAMPALA, Uganda: A new government report in Uganda found that 12 million people in the East African nation are experiencing food insecurity. Speaking...
BANJUL/DAKAR: When Gambian intelligence officers arrested journalist Ebrima Manneh at his newspaper, he asked an office guard to save some tea. "I'm coming...
LAGOS, Nigeria: Two German archaeologists recently abducted in Nigeria's northwestern Kaduna state have regained their freedom on Sunday, according to a local police...
KHARTOUM: Sudanese authorities have released a Czech national who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for espionage. Peter Jasek, a filmmaker, was...
KADUNA, Nigeria: Two German archaeologists who were kidnapped in central Nigeria have been freed, a police official said on Sunday. No ransom was...
NAIROBI, Kenya: The Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) on Saturday announced that it has suspended the distribution of relief food to starving residents...
Mogadishu: At least five people were killed and three others were injured in clan fighting near Adale town in Somalia. The renewed clashes...
United Nations, United States: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza against seeking a fourth term, saying such a move...
Pretoria: South African police fired rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades to break up clashes between local protesters and immigrants in Pretoria...
Dakar: Senegalese police have arrested two Malians suspected of involvement in a jihadist attack on an Ivory Coast beach resort last year that...
Oslo: Aid agencies must get food to close to 3 million people by July to avert a famine in Africa’s Lake Chad region...
Kano: Two German archaeologists have been kidnapped in Kaduna state, northern Nigeria, police said yesterday, stoking fears of more abductions in a region...
Abuja: Nigeria yesterday said it had summoned South Africa's top diplomat to register its fears about a fresh wave of violence against immigrants...
Goma: Sixteen people have been killed in three days of fighting this week that pitted the Democratic Republic of Congo's army against a...
Today the countries of the Lake Chad region — Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria, donor governments such as Norway and Germany, the United...
