World / Africa

ARU, Democratic Republic of Congo: The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) currently has the highest number of displaced people in Africa, the UN...

Nairobi: A special commission on Monday slashed the salaries of Kenya’s president and his deputy, as well as Cabinet officers, parliamentary deputies, and...

Nigeria:  The Nigerian government’s efforts to secure peace in the oil heartlands of the Niger Delta are empty promises, community leaders say, threatening...

Harare: Zimbabwe's 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe is in Singapore for a "routine medical check-up", state media reported Sunday.  "President Mugabe on Friday left...

NAIROBI, Kenya: Somalia-based al-Shabaab militants on Saturday morning killed nine villagers in Kenya's Poromoko village located in the Lamu county along the coast....

Nairobi: At least nine people were shot and hacked to death in Kenya's coastal Lamu County early Saturday, in the latest attack on...

Nairobi: Kenya's government on Saturday announced the death of Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery at a hospital in the capital Nairobi. Nkaissery, 68, a...

MOGADISHU, Somalia: At least 17 people, including 13 al-Shabaab fighters, were killed when Somali government forces backed by foreign troops attacked a camp...

NAIROBI, Kenya: Two police officers were killed on Wednesday in an attack by al-Shabaab militants on a police station in northeastern Kenya that...

LUSAKA, Zambia: Citing a continued “sabotage” campaign against the country, Zambian President Edgar Lungu on Wednesday declared a state of emergency. The move...

JOHANNESBURG: Seven people died in a high-rise apartment block fire in Johannesburg on Wednesday including a man who jumped to his death to...

LAGOS, Nigeria: At least 150 people were killed and several thousand others displaced in communal clashes last week in Nigeria's oil-rich southern Cross...

ACCRA, Ghana: A 15-member rescue team was deployed on Tuesday to search for survivors after 14 miners died in a collapsed mine in...

Luanda:  Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos returned to Spain on Monday for a "private visit", officials said, five weeks after a monthlong...

Algiers: The Algerian army killed 63 terrorists and confiscated a large quantity of military weapons during operations carried out in the first six...

Kano, Nigeria: Boko Haram fighters have been found among refugees returning to northeast Nigeria from neighbouring Cameroon, the Borno State Emergency Management Agency...

Geneva: The new director general of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom, took over managing the UN health agency on Saturday, the WHO...

Abuja: Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari faced a fresh call to quit Thursday, nearly two months after he left the country on indefinite sick...