MOGADISHU, Somalia: At least 17 people, including 13 al-Shabaab fighters, were killed when Somali government forces backed by foreign troops attacked a camp...
MOGADISHU, Somalia: At least 17 people, including 13 al-Shabaab fighters, were killed when Somali government forces backed by foreign troops attacked a camp...
NAIROBI, Kenya: Two police officers were killed on Wednesday in an attack by al-Shabaab militants on a police station in northeastern Kenya that...
LUSAKA, Zambia: Citing a continued “sabotage” campaign against the country, Zambian President Edgar Lungu on Wednesday declared a state of emergency. The move...
JOHANNESBURG: Seven people died in a high-rise apartment block fire in Johannesburg on Wednesday including a man who jumped to his death to...
LAGOS, Nigeria: At least 150 people were killed and several thousand others displaced in communal clashes last week in Nigeria's oil-rich southern Cross...
ACCRA, Ghana: A 15-member rescue team was deployed on Tuesday to search for survivors after 14 miners died in a collapsed mine in...
Luanda: Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos returned to Spain on Monday for a "private visit", officials said, five weeks after a monthlong...
Algiers: The Algerian army killed 63 terrorists and confiscated a large quantity of military weapons during operations carried out in the first six...
Kano, Nigeria: Boko Haram fighters have been found among refugees returning to northeast Nigeria from neighbouring Cameroon, the Borno State Emergency Management Agency...
Geneva: The new director general of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom, took over managing the UN health agency on Saturday, the WHO...
Abuja: Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari faced a fresh call to quit Thursday, nearly two months after he left the country on indefinite sick...
Paris: Investigators have widened a corruption probe into the French assets of three African ruling families, charging the daughter and son-in-law of Congo's...
MONROVIA, Liberia: Liberia and a Chinese company signed Friday the first ever steel manufacturing agreement in the West African country in more than...
LAGOS, Nigeria: Nigeria's senate President Bukola Saraki on Friday condemned the government's appeal against the tribunal ruling that acquitted him from corruption charges...
ARU, Democratic Republic of Congo: UN experts will be sent to the Democratic Republic of Congo to investigate violence in which hundreds of...
LUSAKA, Zambia: Zambia police Friday arrested and detained the entire provincial executive committee of the opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) in...
MAROUA, Cameroon: At least eight people have been killed in a suicide attack in Cameroon’s Far North Region, officials said Thursday. The attack...
JOHANNESBURG: Some 100 people were reportedly killed in intense fighting that broke out Tuesday in the Central African Republic (CAR), local media and...
