Bamako: An attack on a military base in Boulikessi in Mali has left 11 soldiers dead and five wounded. There was no immediate...
Bamako: An attack on a military base in Boulikessi in Mali has left 11 soldiers dead and five wounded. There was no immediate...
Nairobi: One of Africa's oldest and largest elephants was killed by poachers in Kenya on Monday, according to a conservation group that protects...
KHARTOUM: A rebel Sudanese group said Saturday it has released more than 130 army prisoners. In a statement, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/North...
MWANZA, Tanzania: The most notorious Tanzanian poacher, Boniface Mathew Maliango nicknamed ‘The Devil’ has been sent to twelve years imprisonment for running an...
NAIROBI: Four poachers and a senior Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) officer were on Saturday shot dead in a gunfight between KWS rangers and...
MOGADISHU, Somalia: At least 110 people have died of hunger and water-borne diseases in the last 48 hours in Somalia’s southwestern regions of...
JOHANNESBURG: North Korean weapons barred by U.N. sanctions ended up in the hands of U.N. peacekeepers in Africa, a confidential report says. That...
Banjul, Gambia: Gambian President Adama Barrow has allowed six soldiers convicted of plotting a coup against former leader Yahya Jammeh back into the...
MAROUA, Cameroon: Boko Haram militant group is using young children on suicide bombing missions, Midjiyawa Bakari, governor of Cameroon’s Far North region, said...
HARAE, Zimbabwe: Three Zimbabwean journalists were arrested Friday morning for insulting the country’s aging strongman president. Zimbabwean police claim that the journalists --...
JOHANNESBURG: South African President Jacob Zuma said Friday his country’s constitution would have to be amended to allow for land restitution without compensation...
SYDNEY: An earthquake of 6.3 magnitude struck off Papua New Guinea on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, but there were no...
MONROVIA: The family of a Liberian Ebola nurse named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” in 2014 wants to sue a hospital whose...
Libreville: A Chadian journalist has been released without charge after four days in detention over the publication of an article criticising the country's...
Nairobi: At least 57 members of the Al Shabab extremist group were killed yesterday as African Union and Somali forces attacked one of...
BENI, Congo: A local official says five workers have been kidnapped from a gold mine in eastern Congo, including two from France and...
ADWA, Ethiopia: Ethiopia is celebrating Adwa Victory Day, marking a battle that helped to ensure that the country was never colonized. Just two...
LAGOS, Nigeria: Nearly 8,000 civilians were taken from Boko Haram hideouts in Nigeria’s insurgency-wracked northeastern region during the month of February, an army...
