Pretoria: South African police fired rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades to break up clashes between local protesters and immigrants in Pretoria...
Pretoria: South African police fired rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades to break up clashes between local protesters and immigrants in Pretoria...
Dakar: Senegalese police have arrested two Malians suspected of involvement in a jihadist attack on an Ivory Coast beach resort last year that...
Oslo: Aid agencies must get food to close to 3 million people by July to avert a famine in Africa’s Lake Chad region...
Kano: Two German archaeologists have been kidnapped in Kaduna state, northern Nigeria, police said yesterday, stoking fears of more abductions in a region...
Abuja: Nigeria yesterday said it had summoned South Africa's top diplomat to register its fears about a fresh wave of violence against immigrants...
Goma: Sixteen people have been killed in three days of fighting this week that pitted the Democratic Republic of Congo's army against a...
Today the countries of the Lake Chad region — Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria, donor governments such as Norway and Germany, the United...
Khartoum: President Omar al-Bashir has ordered Sudanese authorities to assist the delivery of international humanitarian aid to famine-hit South Sudan through the country,...
Johannesburg: The South African government on Thursday called for calm after a wave of xenophobic violence in which dozens of shops and houses...
NAIROBI, Kenya: Amina Bilan, 35, sat watching butchers in white coats working at a makeshift slaughterhouse in northern Kenya, her arms wrapped around...
Sudan: Sudanese authorities Tuesday rescued 29 hostages from a human trafficking gang in eastern Kasala province, said Sudan's news agency, SUNA. Among the...
Oslo: More than seven million people risk starvation in Nigeria’s insurgency-hit northeastern region and around Lake Chad, a senior UN official said ahead...
Kampala: The inauguration of Uganda's first gold refinery sparked concern Wednesday over the possibility of dirty minerals from regional conflict zones making their...
BANJUL, Gambia: Ebrima Sillah, a BBC correspondent in Gambia, narrowly woke up at 3 a.m. in alarm in a house in flames. “When...
LAGOS, Nigeria: Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday commended his countrymen for their prayers and show of support following concerns about his failing health. ...
BANJUL, Gambia: Gambian police have arrested the former head of the National Intelligence Agency, an institution accused of enforced disappearances and killings under...
LAGOS, Nigeria: At least 2,000 children were forcefully conscripted as combatants by Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants in 2016 alone, UNICEF said Tuesday as...
Juba: South Sudan's President Salva Kiir vowed that the government would ensure that aid reaches areas hit by famine after three years of...
