World / Africa

MOGADISHU: A suspected car bomb killed at least two policemen when it exploded at a checkpoint near the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday,...

LAGOS, Nigeria: Fifty-six civilians were killed and 177 others were injured in two suspected suicide blasts in northeastern Nigeria’s Madagali town on Friday,...

Accra: Ghana's main opposition leader, Nana Akufo-Addo, has won the West African country's presidential election with an absolute majority over President John Mahama,...

NAIROBI: Kenyan police have detained a British journalist working for The Times and are holding him at the country’s main airport without charge,...

Accra: Ghana's main opposition party said yesterday it had an unassailable lead in a presidential election and called on President John Mahama to...

Accra: Ghanaians faced an anxious wait Thursday for the results of a nail-biting presidential election tainted by sporadic outbreaks of violence, with no...

Accra: Ghanians voted Wednesday in tight presidential and parliamentary polls that are seen as a litmus test of stability for Africa's most secure...

NAIROBI: South Sudan has deported a journalist working for the international Associated Press news agency, and the reporter said on Wednesday that it...

NAIROBI: A total of 127 traffic police officers in Kenya have been fired after failing a vetting process, authorities said Tuesday. National Police...

Kinshasa: At least 31 people died in clashes between tribal militia and security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo at the weekend,...

Kinshasa: Twenty-three people died in weekend clashes triggered by tribal rivalry in Congo's central Tshikapa region, the deputy governor of Kasai province said...

NAIROBI, Kenya: Thousands of health workers went on strike across Kenya on Monday in a bid to get the government to implement a...

Accra: Ghana's President John Mahama is a man of the people who is known for his good humour, but forced onto the back...

BANJUL: Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh was celebrating his 48th birthday in Banjul in May 2013 when he saw a poor street hawker selling...

ACCRA: Authorities in Ghana have busted a fake U.S. embassy in the capital Accra run by a criminal network that for a decade...

The Hague: Dominic Ongwen, the former child soldier who became a Lord's Resistance Army warlord, will go before war crimes judges on Tuesday...

Accra: Two old foes are stepping back into the ring to fight in Ghana's hotly contested presidential election on December 7. This is...

Johannesburg: For nearly 40 years Angolans endured a bloody civil war and extreme poverty as power rested solely in the hands of autocratic...