Bouake: Soldiers demanding more pay and housing rose up in several cities around Ivory Coast yesterday, raiding arms depots and taking control of...
Bouake: Soldiers demanding more pay and housing rose up in several cities around Ivory Coast yesterday, raiding arms depots and taking control of...
Chibok: The parents of the 21 Chibok schoolgirls freed by Boko Haram in October last year after two and a half years in...
N'Djamena: Chad, a key ally of the West in the fight against Islamist militants in West Africa, said it has closed its long...
DAR ES SALAAM: More than 800 girls were subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) in northern Tanzania last month, a local government official...
LONDON: Women in the Lake Chad basin have been forced to sell sex to survive due to a conflict that has driven millions...
DAKAR: Half of all Liberians think their West African nation could plunge back into conflict more than a decade after civil war ended,...
Pretoria: South African President Jacob Zuma on Friday held talks in Pretoria with the leader of Western Sahara's Polisario Front independence movement, in...
ABIDJAN: Gunfire erupted overnight in the central Ivory Coast city of Bouake as demobilised soldiers seized weapons from police stations and took up...
Accra: Ghana's outgoing president John Mahama urged his compatriots to get behind his successor, Nana Akufo-Addo, during his last state of the nation...
Bangui: Two Moroccan peacekeepers died after gunmen attacked their convoy in the Central African Republic's (CAR) remote southeast, the UN mission said yesterday....
Yenagoa: Nigeria has resumed payments of cash stipends to former militants agreed under a 2009 amnesty in the country's Niger Delta oil hub,...
Kampala: A group of Ugandan lawmakers have sent a petition to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to ask for an investigation into possible...
The UN Security Council called for the rapid and complete implementation of a deal to end the political crisis in the DR Congo....
BANGUI: Blindfolds secured tightly, more than a dozen men and women are led by their partners around leafy plants and trees in the...
KIAMAIKO, Kenya: Dressed in a white apron and black gum boots, 24-year-old Osman Idris waits patiently outside a Nairobi slaughterhouse as scores of...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa: When South African street vendor Nelson Khethani was evicted from his home in downtown Johannesburg to make way for a...
LAMU: When Walid Amed Ali stands beside the only window in his tiny office, he looks out on an almost perfect world on...
HARARE, Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe's wildlife agency said Thursday it has sold 35 elephants to China to ease overpopulation and raise funds for conservation, amid...
