MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Just days after weekend suicide bombings, at least four people were killed in an explosion on a minibus just outside the...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Just days after weekend suicide bombings, at least four people were killed in an explosion on a minibus just outside the...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn on Tuesday announced a cabinet reshuffle weeks into a state of emergency that followed waves...
Lagos: Boko Haram killed nine people, including five soldiers, over the weekend in an ambush on Nigerian troops in Nigeria's northeast, the army's...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Witnesses say Nigerian troops shot a man with explosives strapped to his torso trying to enter a refugee camp in northeastern...
ABIDJAN: Voters in Ivory Coast cast their ballots on Sunday in a referendum to decide whether to approve a new constitution that President...
Kano, Nigeria: Two suicide bombings rocked Nigeria's northeast city of Maiduguri on Saturday, killing at least nine people and injuring scores of others,...
Nairobi: A man was shot and killed by Kenyan police outside the US embassy in the capital Nairobi on Thursday after stabbing an...
Tripoli: The Libyan navy said Thursday that almost 100 migrants were missing after their Europe-bound boat sank off the country's coast, while 29...
Pibor, South Sudan: Some 145 child soldiers fighting for two rebel groups in South Sudan have been released, UNICEF has announced. This is...
Dakar: The Gambia has become the latest African nation to announce its withdrawal from the International Criminal Court, accusing the war crimes tribunal...
ARU, Democratic Republic of Congo: A senior commander of the Rwandan rebels organization operating in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been arrested...
LAGOS, Nigeria: A former minister and a former presidential spokesman were arrested in Nigeria as part of what officials called the extension of...
BANGUI: U.N. peacekeepers and armed men exchanged fire on Monday in Central African Republic's capital Bangui, the United Nations said, while hundreds of...
Yaoundé: The death toll in last week's train crash in Cameroon has climbed to 79 after rescuers finished combing through the wreckage, authorities...
HARARE, Zimbabwe: The water crisis facing Zimbabwe’s capital Harare has sparked fears of an outbreak of diseases such as cholera, which led to...
Abalak, Niger: For people living in the small city of Abalak in central Niger, the abduction of a longtime US aid worker over...
Port-au-Prince: At least 100 inmates, some of them armed, escaped a Haitian prison near the capital Port-au-Prince during a mutiny, killing at least...
NAIROBI: 26 Asian sailors freed after more than four years of captivity in a small fishing village in Somalia arrived in the Kenyan...
