Cape Town: South Africa's murder rate rose again last year, official statistics showed Tuesday, with over 20,000 killed across the country -- about...
Cape Town: South Africa's murder rate rose again last year, official statistics showed Tuesday, with over 20,000 killed across the country -- about...
NAIROBI, The leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea visited their shared border to celebrate Ethiopian new year together on Tuesday - marking the countries'...
Accra: The body of Kofi Annan was on Monday returned to his native Ghana in a solemn ceremony marking the start of official...
BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo: When Esperance Nzavaki heard she was cured of Ebola after three weeks of cutting-edge care at a medical...
Antananarivo: At least one person was killed and 37 were injured in a stampede at a football stadium in Madagascar's capital Antananarivo, hospital...
JUBA: A commercial plane crashed into a lake in South Sudan on Sunday and killed 18 people, a local official said. The 19-seater...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Residents say Boko Haram extremists have overrun a key crossroads and military outpost in northern Nigeria. Gudumbali is a town to...
JOHANNESBURG: The former president of Angola on Saturday said he made mistakes during his long rule but was holding his "head high" as...
HARARE: Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday appointed former banker Mthuli Ncube as finance minister and said Winston Chitando would remain as mines...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Suspected Boko Haram militants have kidnapped between 10 and 20 people, a family member of one of those abducted, a senator...
NAIROBI: An Ethiopian commercial ship docked in an Eritrean port for the first time in two decades on Wednesday, state-affiliated media said, in...
Jos, Nigeria, Nineteen people have been killed and scores of homes burnt in fresh violence in central Nigeria, police said, after weeks of...
LAGOS, Nigeria: At least 11 people were killed and 12 others injured when unknown gunmen opened fire at locals in central Nigeria, police...
BENI, Congo: Leoni Kahumbu remembers the night her 15-year-old daughter, Pascaline, first showed signs of Ebola. She found her fainted on the bathroom...
MOGADISHU: A huge blast was heard in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Sunday and clouds of smoke could be seen in the city, according...
Kano, Nigeria: At least 30 Nigerian soldiers died in combat with Boko Haram jihadists who overran a military base in the northeast near...
Nouakchott, Mauritania, a frontline state in the fight against Islamic extremism, went to the polls on Saturday in legislative, regional and local elections...
NAIROBI, Prominent Ugandan opposition lawmaker and popular musician Robert Kyagulanyi who was charged with treason has left Uganda by plane, his lawyers said....
