Abuja: Nigerians hoping to cast their ballots in presidential and parliamentary elections were turned away from polling stations on Saturday after the electoral...
Abuja: Nigerians hoping to cast their ballots in presidential and parliamentary elections were turned away from polling stations on Saturday after the electoral...
KANO, Nigeria: As Nigerians prepared to vote for president on Saturday, Sister Meg Odeh looked up from a selection of pineapples laid out...
Kadoma, Zimbabwe: At least 60 illegal gold miners were feared dead in Zimbabwe on Friday after water flooded two disused shafts in a...
Windhoek: The Namibian government on Friday said it hoped a new law to remove criminal penalties for mothers abandoning their new-born babies would...
Durban, South Africa, Six people were killed after fire engulfed a fishing vessel in a harbour in South Africa's southwestern city of Durban,...
KANO, Nigeria: Nigeria surged into the final day of campaigning ahead of Saturday's election, as President Muhammadu Buhari made one last pitch to...
Nairobi: Five people have died after a small plane carrying them from Kenya's Maasai Mara nature reserve crashed in the west of the...
Lagos: Thousands of handheld devices needed to verify identities at Nigeria's election this weekend have been destroyed in a fire at an electoral...
Fourteen people died in a stampede at Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s election rally in the southern city of Port Harcourt, Punch reported. The...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: A statue of Ethiopia's Emperor Haileselassie has been unveiled at the headquarters of the African Union on Sunday. The statue...
Addis Ababa: Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who led an active, reformist tenure as African Union chair, on Sunday passes the baton to Egypt,...
Addis Ababa: Ethiopia formally re-integrated some 1,700 former fighters with the separatist Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) which waged a three decade insurgency...
Kano, Nigeria: Three soldiers were killed when Boko Haram jihadists raided a military base in northeast Nigeria, security sources said on Saturday. The...
BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo: Congo's new president is urging tens of thousands of political exiles to come home. President Felix Tshisekedi made the...
PARIS: France said on Thursday its defence cooperation with Cameroon was continuing a day after the United States said it was halting some...
HARARE, Zimbabwe's Vice President Constantino Chiwenga is receiving treatment in South Africa, the second time in four months, after falling ill last week,...
Nairobi: Enraged Tanzanian villagers beat to death four people suspected of involvement in the murder of a seven-year-old girl, a regional governor said...
Bangui, Central African Republic: The peace accord between the Central African Republic and 14 armed groups will be signed on Tuesday, the Sudanese...
