PAYNESVILLE, Liberia: Police in Liberia say a fire at a Quranic school east of the capital, Monrovia, has killed at least 27 people...
PAYNESVILLE, Liberia: Police in Liberia say a fire at a Quranic school east of the capital, Monrovia, has killed at least 27 people...
Monrovia: A fire at a Koranic school near the Liberian capital Monrovia has killed at least 26 children and two teachers, the president's...
Johannesburg: South Africa's highest court on Wednesday upheld a ruling that spanking or corporal punishment of children at home was unconstitutional, saying the...
SOUROUKOUDINGA, Burkina Faso: Scientists in Burkina Faso have deployed a new weapon in the fight against malaria, and waded into a thorny bioethics...
Benin City, Nigeria: Emerging from her ordeal, Gloria considers herself "privileged". Last year, the 26-year-old left Nigeria with four other women, dreaming of...
Cape Town: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday extended by six months the deployment of South African troops on the streets of...
Niamey: "At last, we're here!" Amina and Halima, who live in Niger's capital Niamey, exulted after reaching high ground following the worst floods...
Tunis: Chadlia Caid Essebsi, the wife of the late Tunisian president Beji Caid Essebsi, passed away on Sunday as the first round of...
Tunis, Tunisia: Tunisians are casting ballots in their North African country's second democratic presidential election, choosing among 26 candidates for a leader who...
BAMAKO: Drissa Bouare has been selling charcoal in Mali's capital, Bamako, for almost two decades, but has never had more trouble finding supplies...
HARARE, Zimbabwe: Former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe will be buried at the national Heroes' Acre site but the date has not yet been...
Mongoumba, Central African Republic: Under the tarpaulin shading the back of the lorry, the heat is still stifling on a rough road for...
Cotonou: The people watched in horror as the bulldozers moved in. Soon their meagre dwellings were reduced to rubble, becoming homes only to...
GOMA: At least 50 people were killed when a train derailed in Congo's southeastern province of Tanganyika in the early hours of Thursday,...
Harare: The body of Zimbabwe's ex-president, Robert Mugabe, arrived home on Wednesday to an honour guard in a country divided over the legacy...
HARARE: The body of former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was expected in the country later on Wednesday, a family spokesman said, but his...
KAMPALA, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has said he wants courts to hand out eye-for-an-eye-style sentences for all murder convicts, to help stem soaring...
HARARE: Zimbabwe's founder Robert Mugabe is proving as polarising in death as he was in life, with a fight over where he will...
