MOGADISHU: A Turkish delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak arrived in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday. Kaynak and his delegation...
MOGADISHU: A Turkish delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak arrived in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday. Kaynak and his delegation...
Abuja: Three suicide bombers have been killed in two foiled suicide attacks in the outskirts of the Borno State capital, Maiduguri in northeastern...
Johannesburg: South Africa's main opposition party said on Sunday that it had charged a provincial leader with misconduct after she posted on Twitter...
NAIROBI, Kenya: A Kenyan court Friday temporarily blocked a government move to hire foreign doctors from Tanzania and Cuba in the wake of...
ARU, Democratic Republic of Congo: The UN human rights office in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Friday it knows of 23 mass...
JOHANNESBURG: South African President Jacob Zuma replaced several high-profile ministers in a cabinet reshuffle announced Friday, leading to a five-percent drop in the...
Kano, Nigeria: Boko Haram Islamists have abducted 22 girls and women in two separate raids in northeast Nigeria, residents and vigilantes told AFP...
JOHANNESBURG: President Jacob Zuma’s midnight sacking of his finance minister shook South African markets on Friday, undermining his authority and threatening to split...
Johannesburg: South African President Jacob Zuma has come under fire from both his own party and the opposition over a cabinet reshuffle in...
Addis Ababa: The Ethiopian parliament on Thursday extended the country's state of emergency by four months, national broadcaster EBC reported, two weeks after...
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JOHANNESBURG: Former South African anti-apartheid hero Ahmed Kathrada was laid to rest at the Westpark Cemetery in Johannesburg on Wednesday. Kathrada died on...
LAGOS, Nigeria: The leader of Boko Haram is “on the run”, Defense Minister Mansur Dan-Ali said Tuesday in a break with the government’s...
ARU, Democratic Republic of Congo: Police on Tuesday confirmed the discovery of the bodies of two Europeans and one Congolese in the Central...
Khartoum: More than 60,000 South Sudanese have entered Sudan in the first three months of 2017, the UN refugee agency said on Wednesday,...
Abuja: Nearly 270 people, most of them children, have died in the past five months during the latest meningitis outbreak to hit Nigeria,...
JUBA, South Sudan: Since famine was declared in parts of South Sudan a month ago, the United Nations children’s fund, UNICEF and partners...
JOHANNESBURG/PRETORIA: Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan flew back to South Africa on Tuesday, obeying an abrupt recall from President Jacob Zuma, and said he...
Bamako: Former rebels in Mali on Tuesday reversed a decision to boycott a national reconciliation conference after receiving assurances from the government, a...
