KIGALI: Landslides caused by heavy rains killed at least 18 people in Rwanda's Northern and Western province over the weekend, pushing the death...
KIGALI: Landslides caused by heavy rains killed at least 18 people in Rwanda's Northern and Western province over the weekend, pushing the death...
HARARE, Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe's new president is rolling out freedoms as never seen before in the country recovering from the 37-year grip of former...
Beira, Mozambique: Mozambique's Renamo opposition party on Saturday named Ossufo Momade as its interim leader after veteran chief Afonso Dhlakama, who had headed...
Mogadishu: Armed men abducted a German nurse working for the International Committee of the Red Cross on Wednesday evening from a compound in...
NAIROBI: With their manicured nails, immaculate make-up and matching handbags and stilettos, you would be forgiven for mistaking the five women seated in...
KIGALI: Rwandan police have arrested 23 Congolese refugees after senior police officers and government officials were pelted with stones during a visit to...
Nairobi: Burundi on Tuesday launched the official campaign for a referendum on constitutional change that could enable President Pierre Nkurunziza to stay in...
Ouagadougou: Burkinabe authorities have arrested around 100 people and seized explosives in operations in eastern and northern regions near the Malian border where...
Harare: Zimbabwe has legalised production of cannabis for medicinal or scientific use, according to new regulations seen by AFP Saturday. A statutory instrument...
Cape Town: Seven people were killed in South Africa on Friday when a train ploughed into a pickup truck at a crossing where...
KIGALI, Rwanda: Mass graves that authorities say could contain more than 2,000 bodies have been discovered in Rwanda nearly a quarter-century after the...
ADDIS ABABA: Britain must permanently return all artefacts from Ethiopia held by the Victoria and Albert Museum and Addis Ababa will not accept...
ANTANANARIVO: Thousands marched in Madagascar's capital on Monday to protest against new electoral laws and the death of a person in a similar...
Kano, Nigeria: Two suicide bombers killed three Muslim worshippers in a mosque in a northeast Nigerian town still being rebuilt after virtual destruction...
Kano, Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari's pledge to end Boko Haram's Islamist insurgency in northeast Nigeria played a large part in his 2015 presidential election...
KIREHE, Rwanda: During Burundi's brutal 12-year civil war, Maggy Barankitse set out to rescue as many children as she could. Through her efforts...
Makurdi, Nigeria: Gunmen have killed four police personnel in central Nigeria's Benue state, police said on Monday, in the latest flare-up in an...
Bangui, Central African Republic: Seventeen people and a UN peacekeeper were killed Tuesday in clashes in a Muslim enclave of Bangui, capital of...