Kano, Nigeria: Suspected Boko Haram jihadists killed at least 31 people in a twin suicide bomb attack on a town in northeast Nigeria,...
Kano, Nigeria: Suspected Boko Haram jihadists killed at least 31 people in a twin suicide bomb attack on a town in northeast Nigeria,...
Harare: A record 23 presidential candidates were cleared on Thursday to run in Zimbabwe's elections due on July 30, including incumbent Emmerson Mnangagwa...
KINSHASA: South Sudan's president and rebel leader have been invited to meet face-to-face next week in Ethiopia in an effort to end a...
Abuja: Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday offered a symbolic apology to the deceased winner of the 1993 democratic election that was annulled...
NAIROBI, Kenya: Burundi's president announced Thursday he will not run for another term, even as he put in place a new constitution that...
NAIROBI, Kenya: The wreckage of a small plane carrying 10 people was spotted southwest of Kenya's Aberdare mountain range nearly two days after...
Johannesburg: In a freak accident, a man shot dead his 14-year-old son outside his school in South Africa where he had been waiting...
Nairobi: Rescue teams on Wednesday were looking for a small plane with 10 people on board that went missing north of the Kenyan...
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia's parliament approved on Tuesday the government's decision to lift a six-month state of emergency two months earlier than planned, state-affiliated...
Antananarivo: Madagascar's prime minister announced his resignation on Monday in the first step towards the naming of a "consensus" premier to resolve a...
Nairobi, Kenya: Three people have been killed when a building collapsed in Nairobi's low income residential area of Huruma, a police official and...
Kano, Nigeria, Cattle thieves have killed 23 people in northern Nigeria's Zamfara state which has been battling cattle rustling and kidnapping in recent...
Bamako: The UN has called for calm in Mali after dozens of people were hurt during banned opposition protests in Bamako, sparking calls...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: Ethiopia's cabinet has approved a draft law aiming to lift the country's state of emergency that was imposed in February...
ABUJA/LONDON: Human traffickers are planning to exploit relaxed Russian visa controls for next month's World Cup to sell Nigerian women into sex work,...
GENEVA: Fighting in the Libyan city of Derna has reached unprecedented levels, with air raids, shelling of residential areas and heavy ground clashes,...
Harare: Zimbabwe will hold a general election on July 30, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Wednesday, a vote he has pledged will be...
NAIROBI: Kenyan authorities have arrested the head of the National Youth Service as part of investigations into a $99-million theft of funds, media...
