World / Africa

Prison escapee dies in South Africa 28 Dec 2016 - 10:22 pm

A PRISONER who escaped twice from high-security jails in South Africa died while being treated for an illness that guards reportedly at first...

Gambians turn back to migration as political impasse drags 28 Dec 2016 - 07:01 pm

Banjul, Gambia: Ansu Sanyang was ready. Sick of providing so little for his parents and sisters with any work he could find, the...

Floods in southwest Congo kill at least 50 28 Dec 2016 - 06:39 pm

KINSHASA: Flooding this week in the Democratic Republic of Congo port city of Boma killed at least 50 people and left another 10,000...

Dozens of Boko Haram fighters surrender in southern Niger 28 Dec 2016 - 02:18 pm

NIAMEY: Dozens of Boko Haram fighters have given themselves up to authorities in southern Niger, the interior minister said, days after the Islamist...

We don't see Africa from colonial perspective: Erdogan 28 Dec 2016 - 12:26 am

ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Turkey doesn't see Africa from colonial perspective. In a joint press conference with Guinean...

Police raid Ugandan mosque; arrest 18 27 Dec 2016 - 10:45 pm

Uganda Police has confirmed the arrest of 18 people found at Nakasero mosque during an early morning raid in central Kampala yesterday. A...

3,000 return to hometown reclaimed from Boko Haram 27 Dec 2016 - 10:41 pm

Maiduguri: More than 3,000 people in northeast Nigeria who were forced to flee the seven-year insurgency waged by Islamist militants have returned to...

South Sudan pins hope on national dialogue for peace 27 Dec 2016 - 11:47 am

JUBA, South Sudan: The announcement earlier this month by South Sudan’s president of the start of a national dialogue in the war-torn country...

At least 30 dead in Uganda ferry accident 26 Dec 2016 - 10:17 pm

Kampala: At least 30 Ugandan members of a village football team and their fans drowned on Sunday when their boat capsized on Lake...

DR Congo troops killed 10 soldiers from Burundi: army 26 Dec 2016 - 06:14 pm

Bukavu, DR Congo: Democratic Republic of Congo troops killed 10 soldiers from neighbouring Burundi after they crossed the border last week in pursuit...

Nigerian troops foil suicide attack in restive city 26 Dec 2016 - 06:08 pm

Lagos: Nigerian troops on Monday foiled an attempt by two female suicide bombers to attack a cattle market in the restive city of...

Nigeria to open major roads after strike on Boko Haram 26 Dec 2016 - 11:33 am

Lagos Nigeria: Nigeria Sunday will reopen at least two major roads in the country's northeast previously closed due to repeated attacks by Boko...

13 dead in rebel attack in Democratic Republic of Congo 26 Dec 2016 - 11:10 am

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo: Thirteen people were killed in an attack by Ugandan Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels in eastern Democratic Republic...

Two dead in Cameroon suicide bomb attack 25 Dec 2016 - 11:34 pm

Yaounde: A suicide bomber in the northern Cameroon town of Mora killed a young student and a woman in an attack on a...

Two dead in Nigeria police building collapse 25 Dec 2016 - 11:31 pm

Two people were killed when part of a two-storey building in a police training college collapsed in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos yesterday, the...

Congo ethnic militia kills 13 civilians 25 Dec 2016 - 11:30 pm

Kinshasa: An ethnic Nande militia in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo killed at least 13 Hutu civilians yesterday with guns and machetes in...

Search for French aid worker kidnapped in Mali 25 Dec 2016 - 05:41 pm

Paris: A Frenchwoman who runs an organisation for malnourished children has been kidnapped in Mali's restive north, France's foreign ministry confirmed on Sunday,...

Congo: 40 killed, 460 arrested in anti-Kabila demos 25 Dec 2016 - 10:43 am

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo: Over 40 people have died in demonstrations in Democratic Republic of Congo against President Joseph Kabila's refusal to...