World / Africa

Tanzania offers 500 doctors to ease Kenya health crisis 18 Mar 2017 - 02:28 pm

Dar es Salaam: Tanzania on Saturday agreed to send 500 doctors to Kenya after a 100-day doctors' strike that paralyzed health services in...

South Sudan denies big military spending despite famine 18 Mar 2017 - 11:36 am

JUBA, South Sudan: South Sudanese government has denied it is spending more than 60 percent of its revenues on buying weapons to fight...

UK announces drought aid, anti-terror support for Kenya 18 Mar 2017 - 11:19 am

NAIROBI, Kenya: British Secretary of State Boris Johnson has assured Kenya of the U.K.’s support in the fight against terrorism and also offered...

31 Somali migrants killed in airstrike off Yemen 18 Mar 2017 - 11:15 am

GENEVA: At least 31 people were killed and 80 others injured in an airstrike on a boat carrying Somali migrants, including women and...

Zambia: Opposition MPs boycott president's address 18 Mar 2017 - 11:05 am

LUSAKA, Zambia: The opposition members of Zambia’s parliament Friday boycotted an address by the president en masse, saying they refuse to recognize that...

Sierra Leone pastor unearths massive 706-carat diamond 16 Mar 2017 - 04:19 pm

Freetown: A pastor working in the mines of eastern Sierra Leone has unearthed a 706-carat diamond, the government said Thursday, pledging to hold...

Train Derailment in Cameroon Kills, Injures Hundreds 16 Mar 2017 - 03:10 pm

Yaounde: At least 55 people were killed and around 575 others were injured in Cameroon's train crash in the tourist capital Yaounde. A...

Kenyan public debt sustainable, president says 16 Mar 2017 - 12:34 pm

NAIROBI, Kenya: Kenya’s public debt stands at around 50 percent of GDP but the government is not in danger of failing in its...

UK foreign secretary discusses drought on Somalia trip 16 Mar 2017 - 11:45 am

MOGADISHU, Somalia: British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson made surprise visit to Somalia on Wednesday -- the first Western minister to visit the drought-hit...

13 killed in Kenya in drought-related violence 15 Mar 2017 - 07:17 pm

Nairobi: Thirteen people, mostly women and children, have been killed in central Kenya this week in a cycle of violence between rival farming...

Nigeria: 6, including 4 female teenaged bombers killed 15 Mar 2017 - 03:11 pm

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: At least six people, including four female teenaged suicide bombers were killed and 16 others were injured in an attack in...

Purported Boko Haram video shows execution of alleged Nigerian spies 14 Mar 2017 - 07:28 pm

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Islamist militant sect Boko Haram on Tuesday published a video purporting to show the execution of three men the group accused...

Investigation into 2012 Nigeria plane crash faults pilots 14 Mar 2017 - 06:44 pm

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: The pilots of a Nigerian airliner failed to follow emergency procedures and didn't land after one of the plane's...

Mozambique cholera outbreak spreading, more than 1,200 infected 14 Mar 2017 - 06:13 pm

MAPUTO: A cholera outbreak in parts of Mozambique has infected more than 1,200 people, killing two this month after heavy rains, and will...

2 UN peacekeeping workers in DRC kidnapped 14 Mar 2017 - 12:04 pm

ARU, Democratic Republic of Congo: Two workers of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been kidnapped....

Ethiopia: Death toll in dump landslide rises to 65 14 Mar 2017 - 11:51 am

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: The death toll from a garbage dump landslide that buried part of a village under a thick layer of trash...

South African govt 'in control' of xenophobic violence 14 Mar 2017 - 11:47 am

PRETORIA, South Africa: South Africa’s foreign minister on Monday briefed a high-level Nigerian delegation about the government’s response to recent anti-immigrant attacks which...

University lecturers in Kenya call off 54-day strike 14 Mar 2017 - 11:01 am

NAIROBI, Kenya: A 54-day strike by university lectures in Kenya was officially called off after the Universities Academic Staff Union reached an agreement...