NAIROBI, Kenya: The Kenyan opposition leader, Raila Odinga, on Tuesday rejected what he called “sham presidential elections”. Odinga, who pulled out of last...
NAIROBI, Kenya: The Kenyan opposition leader, Raila Odinga, on Tuesday rejected what he called “sham presidential elections”. Odinga, who pulled out of last...
TRIPOLI, Libya: Libya’s Justice and Construction Party on Tuesday accused Tobruk-based military commander Khalifa Haftar of carrying out yesterday’s deadly airstrikes in the...
Geneva: Thousands of people have fled Cameroon's violence-hit anglophone regions into neighbouring Nigeria in recent weeks, the UN said Tuesday, adding it was...
Abuja: Nigeria has agreed to pay compensation to victims of the country's civil war, 47 years after it ended, and clear former conflict...
WASHINGTON: U.S. forces have captured a suspect in the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya that left four Americans dead, the White House said...
Nairobi: Uhuru Kenyatta, who won a second and final term in Kenya's controversial election re-run, is the son of the country's founding president...
Abuja: Two senior Nigerian government officials have been sacked, six months after they were suspended on corruption allegations, the presidency said on Monday....
Paris: The brother of Burkina Faso's ousted president was released from custody in Paris on Monday pending a request for his extradition over...
The Hague: A Dutch-Ethiopian national Monday denied any involvement in war crimes during bloody purges in Ethiopia in the late 1970s, known as...
Niamey: Twenty-three police were hurt and a police station was set on fire in demonstrations against financial reforms late Sunday in the Niger...
Kano, Nigeria: At least five people were killed on Monday when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque in northeastern Nigeria,...
MAROUA, Cameroon: Boko Haram militants have killed 11 villagers in an attack in Cameroon's Far North Region, a military official told Anadolu Agency...
Paris: The exiled brother of Burkina Faso's ousted ex-president Blaise Compaore was arrested at a Paris airport Sunday over the 1998 murder of...
Mogadishu: The death toll from a deadly attack on a hotel in Mogadishu rose to 27 on Sunday, prompting the Somali government to...
Johannesburg, Oct 29, 2017 (AFP) - Weeks of gruelling testimonies at an inquiry in South Africa have tried to answer an unfathomable question...
NAIROBI: As this East African nation tries to find a resolution to a political crisis that threatens to explode into widespread violence, observers...
MOGADISHU, An attack on a hotel in the Somali capital ended on Sunday after 25 people had been killed in a near 12-hour...
Nairobi: Kenya was stuck in limbo Saturday as a repeat election remained on hold in flashpoint opposition areas, while some picked up the...