Addis Ababa: Police in Ethiopia's northern Amhara regional state have arrested a "doomsday prophet" who caused widespread panic over claims his village would...
Addis Ababa: Police in Ethiopia's northern Amhara regional state have arrested a "doomsday prophet" who caused widespread panic over claims his village would...
KIGALI, Rwanda: At least two Rwandan civilians were killed and eight injured when attackers set fire to three passenger vehicles in the southern...
Kampala: Ugandan popstar turned opposition lawmaker Bobi Wine is in hiding after police raided a hotel he was staying in ahead of a...
Abuja: Leaders of countries in the Lake Chad region met on Saturday in Nigeria to give fresh impetus to their fight against Boko...
ADDIS ABABA: A military court in Ethiopia on Saturday jailed 66 soldiers for between five and 14 years for marching on Prime Minister...
YAOUNDE, Cameroon: A Cameroon official says two female suicide bombers have died after detonating in a northern town near the Nigerian border. The...
MOGADISHU, At least 11 Somalis were killed in the southern city of Baidoa on Thursday and early Friday in clashes between police and...
BAMAKO: Gunmen on motorbikes have killed more than 40 Tuareg civilians this week in north Mali, where clashes over land and scarce water...
NAIROBI, Kenya: Kenyan police officials on Tuesday said they have detained the man they believe to be responsible for the kidnapping of an...
DAKAR, Senegal: The death toll from Ebola has risen to 235 in the Democratic Republic of Congo since the start of an outbreak...
DAR ES SALAAM: Ten opposition parties in Tanzania say proposed amendments to a law governing political parties would criminalise their activities. Critics of...
Kano, Nigeria: Two soldiers were killed when suspected Boko Haram fighters loyal to factional leader Abubakar Shekau attacked a military base in northeast...
NAIROBI: Three people were injured by an explosion on a highway in northeast Kenya on Saturday, an official told Reuters, without saying who...
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari sent the 2018 electoral bill back to the National Assembly, his legislative adviser, Ita Enang, said, without revealing whether...
Yaoundé: A separatist leader from the anglophone west of Cameroon went on trial Thursday on charges of "terrorism" and "secession" over unrest that...
NAIROBI, Kenya: The United Nations human rights office says Burundi's government has asked it to leave. Spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani in Geneva confirms that...
Lome: Togo's government has banned a series of planned opposition protests on security grounds, saying the marches posed a security risk. A coalition...
Bangui, Central African Republic, The line of parents waiting to see doctors stretches back outside the hospital into the dusty courtyard. Mums and...
