Addis Ababa: The annual African Union summit opened Sunday with leaders vowing that the AU would play a more prominent role in resolving...
Addis Ababa: The annual African Union summit opened Sunday with leaders vowing that the AU would play a more prominent role in resolving...
Yaoundé: Fighting between government troops and anglophone separatists in parts of southwest Cameroon Sunday disrupted voting in legislative and municipal elections, local officials...
JOHANNESBURG: Plans to cut some of South African Airways' (SAA) domestic and international routes are aimed at making the airline sustainable and free...
JALI, Gambia: Sirreh Samateh has worked outdoors through all eight of her pregnancies, labouring in the sun to grow rice and vegetables in...
LAGOS, Nigeria: Frustrated by one of the world's highest rates of sexual assault, poor law enforcement and tribal taboos that keep people quiet...
LONDON: Young girls in southern Africa are selling sex - sometimes for less than the cost of bread - to survive a hunger...
Poland will hold a presidential election on May 10 that’s set to determine the longevity of its revolt against the European Union’s liberal...
Nairobi: Kenya's second president Daniel arap Moi took power promising peace, love and unity, but ended up mired in graft scandals, stifling democracy...
Nairobi - Former Kenyan president Daniel Arap Moi, who kept his country on a relatively stable footing during his tenure but was less...
Dar es Salaam: Twenty people in Tanzania were trampled to death at an open-air evangelical Christian church service in the north of the...
NAIROBI/KIGALI - Kenya Airways and RwandAir said on Friday that they had suspended all flights to and from China until further notice after...
Oicha, DR Congo: Fifteen people have been killed in the eastern DR Congo region of Beni, where hundreds have died in militia violence...
JOHANNESBURG: Facing destitution when her marriage broke down, 72-year-old Agnes Sithole went to court to challenge a sexist law - and won not...
Nigeria’s biggest city has partially banned the use of motorcycle taxis following an escalating number of fatal accidents, dealing a blow to Softbank...
CAIRO: Tribal clashes in Sudan’s West Darfur province forced more than 11,000 people to flee into neighboring Chad over the past month, the...
BAMAKO, Mali: Gunmen attacked an army camp in Mali near the border with Mauritania, killing 20 soldiers Sunday, the government and armed forces...
NAIROBI: Burundi's ruling party, the CNDD-FDD, on Sunday picked secretary general Evariste Ndayishimiye as its candidate in a presidential election scheduled for May....
LISBON: Angola may ask Portuguese authorities to seize assets belonging to billionaire and former first daughter Isabel dos Santos, who is a suspect...
