Lusaka: Zambia is considering a proposal to move its capital from fast-developing Lusaka to a nearly uninhabited marshland district in the centre of...
Lusaka: Zambia is considering a proposal to move its capital from fast-developing Lusaka to a nearly uninhabited marshland district in the centre of...
MOGADISHU, Somalia: At least five people including a mother and her child were killed in a car bomb attack targeting a small restaurant...
NAIROBI, Kenya: Five police officers attached to a Kenyan government official were killed Wednesday after their vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device...
ARU, Democratic Republic of Congo: An estimated 400,000 children in the Democratic Republic of Congo are at risk of severe acute malnutrition as...
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania: At least nine people were reportedly killed Wednesday when a violent sandstorm tore through Mauritania’s Saharan Tagant region. Several people were...
TUNIS: The governor of Tunisia’s southern Tataouine province, which in recent weeks has been rocked by escalating popular demonstrations, abruptly announced his resignation...
ROME: At least 34 migrants, most of them toddlers, drowned on Wednesday, as coastguard boats and other vessels tried to save hundreds of...
NAIROBI, Kenya: Three police officers were killed by a roadside bomb in northern Kenya on Wednesday, police said. The officers’ Toyota Land Cruiser...
GENEVA: Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus from Ethiopia was elected as the new director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva on Tuesday....
MAROUA, Cameroon: Three suicide bombers were killed on Tuesday morning near a market in Cameroon's Far North Region, military officials said. "Suicide bombers...
Lagos: Nigeria said on Wednesday it had intercepted an illegal cache of arms at the port in Lagos, five months after a similar...
Lagos: One of Nigeria's most prominent traditional rulers is facing a legal challenge to his right to be king, in a fresh controversy...
Bouaké, Ivory Coast: Three people were killed when police clashed Tuesday with former rebels who had blocked the road into Bouake, Ivory Coast's...
JUBA, South Sudan: South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation blighted by over three years of brutal civil war, closed its southern border with...
JUBA, South Sudan: President Salva Kiir on Monday officially launched a much-awaited national dialogue initiative but barred his former deputy Riek Machar from...
Nairobi: German broadcaster Deutsche Welle on Monday demanded the immediate release of its Burundian correspondent who was arrested last week in the Democratic...
ALGIERS: Three Algerian officers were killed in a helicopter crash east of the capital Algiers on Sunday, according to the country’s defense ministry....
Abidjan: Africans are seeing a steady improvement in the quality of their lives, with some countries even nearing world averages, says a wide-ranging...
