Kankara, Nigeria: Annas Shuaibu says he awoke to the sound of gunshots fired by men who burst into his boarding school in northwest...
Kankara, Nigeria: Annas Shuaibu says he awoke to the sound of gunshots fired by men who burst into his boarding school in northwest...
Katsina, Nigeria: Dozens of schoolboys who were rescued from kidnappers in northwest Nigeria arrived back home on Friday, many of them barefoot and...
KINSHASA: The Democratic Republic of Congo will impose a curfew and other strict measures, including the mandatory wearing of masks in public spaces,...
Lagos: The latest abduction of 333 schoolchildren claimed by Boko Haram comes nearly three years after 111 schoolgirls were snatched by jihadists in...
Lagos: Gunmen have raided a government secondary school in northern Nigeria's Katsina state, police said Saturday, in an apparent kidnapping attempt for ransom....
Johannesburg - South Africa, the country most affected by the coronavirus on the continent, has entered a second wave of the pandemic, the...
Nairobi: Conservationists are working to rescue giraffes stranded on an island in Lake Boringo in western Kenya after heavy rains led to the...
Tunis - Tunisia on Sunday extended a night-time curfew until the end of the year in a bid to tackle spiking novel coronavirus...
ACCRA, Ghana: Ghanaians head to the polls for general elections on Dec. 7 that many contend will be a close race between the...
NAIROBI, Kenya: Africa’s top public health official says 60% of the continent’s population needs to be vaccinated against the coronavirus in the next...
Lagos: Police in Nigeria have rescued 10 people, including four children, four pregnant women and two other women from an illegal maternity home,...
Addis Ababa: Rockets launched from Ethiopia's northern Tigray region targeted the capital of Eritrea several hours after Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared...
Addis Ababa: Heavy shelling struck the capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region on Saturday, the local government and humanitarian sources said, as the city...
Johannesburg - The World Health Organization on Thursday urged African countries to improve their capacity to vaccinate populations against Covid-19, warning the continent...
OUAGADOUGOU: Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore won re-election at a Nov. 22 poll with 57.87% of the vote, according to full preliminary results...
DAKAR, Senegal: Al-Qaida’s North African branch said it has appointed a new leader after confirming the death of its former chief, who was...
Nouakchott: Mauritania's former president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, the West African state's first democratically elected president, died overnight, his family members and the...
OUAGADOUGOU: Polls opened in Burkina Faso on Sunday in a presidential election dominated by jihadist violence, which has cost over 2,000 lives this...
