World / Africa

NAIROBI: An Ethiopian Airlines flight to Nairobi crashed early on Sunday with 149 passengers and eight crew members aboard, a spokesman for the...

KINSHASA, Congo: Armed assailants again attacked an Ebola treatment center in the heart of eastern Congo's deadly outbreak on Saturday, with the mayor...

ALGIERS, Algerian authorities halted train and metro services in the capital Algiers on Friday amid heavy security ahead of expected protests against President...

YAOUNDE:  A television show that featured a demonstration of how to physically abuse your wife has sparked outrage in Cameroon and calls for...

NAIROBI, Kenya: A strike by airport workers at Kenya's main airport continued Thursday, but the East African country's flagship airline says operations are...

DAKAR, Senegal: Doctors Without Borders is warning that the effort to control Congo's Ebola outbreak is hampered by a "toxic" security situation including...

Mogadishu: A "heavy" explosion rocked central Mogadishu Thursday morning, leaving an unknown number of casualties, a security official and witnesses said. "The blast...

Nairobi:  A Tanzanian court sentenced a teacher to death Wednesday after a 13-year-old pupil died from a beating meted out by him in...

Nairobi: A strike prompted by a labour dispute grounded flights at Kenya's main international airport in Nairobi early on Wednesday, domestic media said,...

GENEVA: Burundi has forced the United Nations to shut its local human rights office after 23 years, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights...

Beni, DR Congo: An Ebola treatment centre in eastern DR Congo has reopened after an attack by gunmen last Wednesday forced its closure,...

NAIROBI: Four Americans and their Kenyan pilot were killed when their helicopter crashed on a remote island in Lake Turkana in a national...

LAGOS, Nigeria:  Seven people were killed in an early morning attack which locals blamed on herders in Benue state, Nigerian army confirmed on...

Lagos: A Nigerian court has condemned as "illegal and unconstitutional" the arrest and deportation of Cameroonian separatists who had applied for asylum in...

WARRI, Nigeria: More than 50 people are missing after a leaking oil pipeline exploded and caused a stampede in southern Nigeria, a local...

Mogadishu:  At least five people were killed and more than 25 wounded when a suicide car bomb targeted a hotel in Somali capital...

Lagos: Muhammadu Buhari may have won re-election as Nigeria's president but he faces a daunting list of present and long-term challenges over the...

Johannesburg:  A pastor in South Africa who claimed to have performed a resurrection has sparked a social media craze as users took to...