MAROUA, Cameroon: Two Cameroonian soldiers were killed and five injured Monday morning in a landmine explosion near the Nigerian border, a military official...
MAROUA, Cameroon: Two Cameroonian soldiers were killed and five injured Monday morning in a landmine explosion near the Nigerian border, a military official...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Three people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, police said Monday. A...
MOGADISHU, Somalia: At least ten soldiers were killed and more than eight others were wounded after a road blast targeted a military vehicle...
LONDON: Ghana, Kenya and Malawi will pilot the world's first malaria vaccine from 2018, offering it for babies and children in high-risk areas...
Kana Rugbana, Nigeria: Nigerian commander Remi Fadairo points to the roiling plume of black smoke blotting the morning horizon in the Niger Delta...
Luanda: Seven Angolan opposition activists have been sentenced to 45 days in jail over a protest calling for transparency in August elections when...
Conakry: Piles of rubbish and broken-down cars are being removed from the rundown streets of Conakry, and disgruntled hawkers on the main avenues...
LAGOS, Nigeria: Nigerian activists on Saturday urged the United Nations and global powers to ratchet up their pressure on the Israeli government to...
NAIROBI, Kenya: The Kenyan military early Friday killed 52 al-Shabaab militants in Badhaadhe region in southern Somalia, military spokesman Col. Joseph Owuoth confirmed...
ANKARA: At least 2,000 children have been press-ganged into fighting by militias and more than 600,000 people have been displaced in rising violence...
LUSAKA, Zambia: Zambian President Edgar Lungu said Thursday he would not hesitate to declare an emergency rule unless people stopped damaging public property...
YAOUNDE: Cameroon’s government said on Thursday it had restored the internet to its restive Anglophone region, three months after cutting it amid protests...
Abuja: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday suspended two key aides over an alleged contract scam and for keeping an unauthorised stash of...
LUSAKA, Zambia: A Zambian court has ordered Tuesday the lifting of a visitation ban on opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema and his co-accused. The...
BUSIA, Kenya: Armed with a hoe and Wellington boots, George Wandera planted bamboo seedlings in neatly dug holes along the banks of a...
LAGOS, Nigeria: The Nigerian army has freed over 1,600 persons from Boko Haram hideouts in the northeast region, killing at least 21 militants...
JUBA, South Sudan: War-torn South Sudan's hospitals are facing critical shortages, with institutions prescribing even basic drugs for purchase at private pharmacies, according...
ARU, Democratic Republic of Congo: 52 children from the Kamuina Nsapu militia have been handed over to officials of the United Nations Children's...
