Brussels: Former militants were recruited by the Democratic Republic of Congo government for a bloody crackdown on protests against the president that left...
Brussels: Former militants were recruited by the Democratic Republic of Congo government for a bloody crackdown on protests against the president that left...
LAGOS, Nigeria: The United Kingdom has asked its citizens to avoid traveling to Nigeria during the Christmas and New Year holiday period, owing...
MWANZA, Tanzania: Tanzanian opposition leader Joshua Nassari narrowly escaped death after unidentified gunmen invaded his home in Arusha, in the north of the...
Monrovia: Businesses in Liberia's dual-currency economy are feeling the pinch as customers stay home and the exchange rate keeps climbing in the absence...
Khartoum: By arresting Darfur's powerful militia chief Musa Hilal, Khartoum has tightened its control over Sudan's strife-torn region but analysts say it might...
Kano, Nigeria: At least 13 people were killed and more than 50 wounded in a dual suicide bomb attack at a busy morning...
Mogadishu, As many as 512 died in an October truck bombing in the Somali capital Mogadishu, an emergency committee investigating the terrorist atrocity...
LAGOS, Nigeria: At least four riot policemen were killed on Friday as security agencies raided a northeastern community in search of illegal arms,...
Lagos Nigeria: Libya has denied complicity in the alleged slave trade, describing it as “criminal and an isolated practice”. The denial came after...
Kinshasa: Police fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators in several Congolese cities on Thursday as they gathered for a major opposition protest to...
WASHINGTON: The U.S. Africa Command (Africom) on Wednesday denied allegations that an operation carried out in August by American troops in Somalia resulted...
YAOUNDE, Cameroon: At least four Cameroonian soldiers were killed in an attack on their post in Southwest Region of the country, an administrative...
Yaoundé: Four Cameroonian soldiers were killed by suspected separatists in a restive English-speaking region early Wednesday, army and government sources said. "Four soldiers...
JUBA, South Sudan: Forty people were killed and dozens others kidnapped when an armed group attacked a tribal community in Duk Padiet in...
NAIROBI: Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta was sworn in for a second term on Tuesday, shortly before riot police teargassed the convoy of opposition...
Nairobi: A new round of talks aimed at ending Burundi's lengthy political crisis began Tuesday in Arusha, Tanzania, though the negotiations were marked...
Kano, Nigeria: The home of Boko Haram's founder is to be turned into a museum as part of plans to chart the deadly...
Lagos: Amnesty International on Tuesday called for Shell to be prosecuted for allegedly helping Nigeria's military to commit human rights abuses in the...
