Nouakchott: Counting began on Saturday in Mauritania after a referendum on constitutional changes sought by President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who derided the...
Nouakchott: Counting began on Saturday in Mauritania after a referendum on constitutional changes sought by President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who derided the...
Kigali: Rwandans yesterday celebrated the third term victory of President Paul Kagame who pledged to continue transforming the nation after winning re-election with...
KIGALI: Incumbent leader Paul Kagame has swept to a landslide victory in Rwanda’s presidential election, results showed early on Saturday, securing a third...
PRETORIA: A South African tourist who was kidnapped in 2011 by al Qaeda while travelling in Mali has been released and is back...
Dakar: Senegal voted in a tense general election Sunday, with ex-president Abdoulaye Wade accusing his successor of engineering problems with the ballot to...
MOGADISHU: A car bomb went off on a busy street in the Somali capital on Sunday, sending huge cloud of smoke into the...
NORTON, Zimbabwe: Jabulani Zilawe lost all 11 of his children to AIDS. Now he is the only one left to care for their...
Kano, Nigeria: At least 69 people are known to have died in a Boko Haram ambush of an oil exploration team in northeast...
JOHANNESBURG: Thousands of people marched Wednesday in Cape Town to condemn Israel’s recent restrictions on the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, which is sacred...
WAU, South Sudan: It's been five months since the shy, frail 13-year-old was snatched from his bed, drugged and raped in the middle...
Dakar: Senegalese prosecutors on Monday announced the opening of a judicial enquiry into a stadium tragedy, as a local team whose fans were...
JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s anti-graft watchdog wants President Jacob Zuma to comply with an order by her predecessor and appoint a judge to investigate...
ARU, Democratic Republic of Congo: The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) currently has the highest number of displaced people in Africa, the UN...
Nairobi: A special commission on Monday slashed the salaries of Kenya’s president and his deputy, as well as Cabinet officers, parliamentary deputies, and...
Nigeria: The Nigerian government’s efforts to secure peace in the oil heartlands of the Niger Delta are empty promises, community leaders say, threatening...
Harare: Zimbabwe's 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe is in Singapore for a "routine medical check-up", state media reported Sunday. "President Mugabe on Friday left...
NAIROBI, Kenya: Somalia-based al-Shabaab militants on Saturday morning killed nine villagers in Kenya's Poromoko village located in the Lamu county along the coast....
Nairobi: At least nine people were shot and hacked to death in Kenya's coastal Lamu County early Saturday, in the latest attack on...