Mogadishu: A suicide car bombing and assault by Shabaab militants on two neighbouring restaurants in Somalia's capital Mogadishu ended Thursday morning with 18...
Mogadishu: A suicide car bombing and assault by Shabaab militants on two neighbouring restaurants in Somalia's capital Mogadishu ended Thursday morning with 18...
Maseru, Lesotho: The estranged wife of Lesotho's incoming prime minister was gunned down just two days before his inauguration, his party and police...
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania: Officials in Tanzania are to start seizing unused land and hand it over to poor farmers in a bid...
LUSAKA: Zambia's parliament suspended 48 opposition lawmakers on Tuesday for boycotting a speech by the president, widening a political rift that has alarmed...
LAGOS, Nigeria: Nigeria’s Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday assented to the country's 2017 budget, exactly one month after the parliament passed the...
Nairobi: Several people were missing Tuesday after a seven-storey building collapsed overnight in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, rescue officials said. Residents were...
ARU, Democratic Republic of Congo: Eight guards were killed when a group of armed men attacked the central prison of Kangbayi in eastern...
BANJUL, Gambia: Gambia’s new President Adama Barrow is under fire after the state intelligence institution arrested a whistle-blower who exposed “high-level corruption” at...
NAIROBI, Kenya: Police in Kenya on Sunday said that they had foiled a major terror attack planned by al-Shabaab commanders based in neighboring...
MOGADISHU, Somalia: In cooperation with Somali security forces, the U.S. conducted airstrikes against an al-Shabaab terrorist training camp in southern Somalia on Sunday,...
NAIROBI: Kenya has seized six men suspected of planning an attack sponsored by the al Shabaab militant group from neighbouring Somalia, the head...
KINSHASA: At least 11 people were killed and 930 prisoners escaped on Sunday when unidentified assailants stormed a jail in Democratic Republic of...
BENGHAZI, Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has been freed by an armed group holding him in...
ARU, Democratic Republic of Congo: The United Nations children's fund (UNICEF) and education officials in central Democratic Republic of Congo’s have said that...
Harare: President Robert Mugabe has fired Zimbabwe's top prosecutor, who now faces a misconduct trial, state media reported Saturday, the latest twist in...
LAGOS, Nigeria: A court martial on Friday sentenced a soldier to death for burning alive an unarmed Boko Haram suspect in northeastern Maiduguri...
ARU, Democratic Republic of Congo: Authorities Friday said they are searching for two International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) workers, who were...
MOGADISHU: Five people were killed in crossfire between two groups of government soldiers on Friday when fighting broke out during the distribution of...
