Rabat: A former radical preacher is the unlikely instigator of a debate on a topic long seen as off-limits in Muslim-majority Morocco: women's...
Rabat: A former radical preacher is the unlikely instigator of a debate on a topic long seen as off-limits in Muslim-majority Morocco: women's...
Johannesburg: A South African High Court Thursday ordered President Jacob Zuma to reveal the documents he used to justify the controversial sacking of...
MOGADISHU, Somalia: Somalia's Minister of Public Works and Reconstruction Abbas Siraj was shot dead in capital Mogadishu on Wednesday evening following a gunfire...
KHARTOUM: Sudan’s Popular Congress Party (PCP) -- founded by late Islamic leader Hassan Alturabi -- has said it would participate in a new...
Maputo: Mozambican opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama on Thursday indefinitely extended a truce he first announced unilaterally in December between his rebel Renamo group...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi said Wednesday his government -- elected in February this year -- had strategized to defeat the...
ALGIERS: Algerian voters will head to the polls on Thursday to elect members of the country’s national assembly. Some 12,000 candidates from 35...
ADDIS ABABA: Aworar Meka had been living and working at the Reppi rubbish dump in Addis Ababa for only one month when tragedy...
LAGOS, Nigeria: Nigeria's president is again missing his weekly cabinet meeting as concerns mount about his health. President Muhammadu Buhari took six weeks...
BANJUL, Gambia: World Press Freedom Day will be marked in Gambia on Wednesday for the first time since the fall of the country’s...
LAGOS, Nigeria: Amid mounting calls for Nigeria’s president to seek medical care abroad, Muhammadu Buhari’s wife is asserting that he is not as...
Monrovia: More people have died following the outbreak of a mysterious illness that began in southeastern Liberia but has spread to the capital,...
DAKAR, Senegal: Human Rights Watch says armed groups targeting civilians in Central African Republic have killed at least 45 people and displaced 11,000...
KIGALI, Rwanda: Rwanda's government says 10 eastern black rhinos have been relocated to the country's Akagera National Park from South Africa, a decade...
Lagos: Nigerian civil society activists called on President Muhammadu Buhari to take long-term medical leave Tuesday, adding to mounting pressure on the 74-year-old...
Algiers: A two-party alliance led by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's National Liberation Front dominates Algeria's parliament. In Thursday's legislative poll the alliance will face...
JOHANNESBURG: South African President Jacob Zuma abandoned a Mayday rally on Monday after he was booed and jeered by trade union members demanding...
ARU, Democratic Republic of Congo: UN airlifted aid for Congolese refugees in Angola who fled from the clashes in their country, UNHCR said...
