DAKAR: Burkina Faso police have arrested at least 28 people for female genital mutilation, the biggest crackdown to date, after 50 girls were...
DAKAR: Burkina Faso police have arrested at least 28 people for female genital mutilation, the biggest crackdown to date, after 50 girls were...
LAGOS, Nigeria: Nigerian authorities say 100 people have died in flooding after heavy rains in recent days. A National Emergency Management Agency spokesman...
NAIROBI: International charity Marie Stopes on Monday denied promoting abortions to teenage girls in Kenya after the government banned a radio advertisement, saying...
DARGUE, Niger: Grappling with desert conditions, insurgency and decades of political instability, Niger has long struggled to feed its rapidly growing population. But...
Kigali: Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire was unexpectedly freed from jail on Saturday after President Paul Kagame permitted her early release, alongside two...
KIGALI: Rwanda has decided to immediately free Victoire Ingabire, an opposition leader jailed for 15 years, after President Paul Kagame exercised his power...
Harare: The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe has risen to 25, the government said Thursday as the World Health Organisation...
SAN FRANCISCO: The outgoing mayor of Cape Town, known for averting a near catastrophic water shortage, said she hopes to leave office on...
ADDIS ABABA: The leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea re-opened crossing points on their shared border on Tuesday for the first time in 20...
Cape Town: South Africa's murder rate rose again last year, official statistics showed Tuesday, with over 20,000 killed across the country -- about...
NAIROBI, The leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea visited their shared border to celebrate Ethiopian new year together on Tuesday - marking the countries'...
Accra: The body of Kofi Annan was on Monday returned to his native Ghana in a solemn ceremony marking the start of official...
BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo: When Esperance Nzavaki heard she was cured of Ebola after three weeks of cutting-edge care at a medical...
Antananarivo: At least one person was killed and 37 were injured in a stampede at a football stadium in Madagascar's capital Antananarivo, hospital...
JUBA: A commercial plane crashed into a lake in South Sudan on Sunday and killed 18 people, a local official said. The 19-seater...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Residents say Boko Haram extremists have overrun a key crossroads and military outpost in northern Nigeria. Gudumbali is a town to...
JOHANNESBURG: The former president of Angola on Saturday said he made mistakes during his long rule but was holding his "head high" as...
HARARE: Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday appointed former banker Mthuli Ncube as finance minister and said Winston Chitando would remain as mines...
