Warri, Nigeria: Gunmen in Nigeria's restive oil-rich south have killed two police guards and kidnapped two Shell workers, police said Saturday. The violence...
Warri, Nigeria: Gunmen in Nigeria's restive oil-rich south have killed two police guards and kidnapped two Shell workers, police said Saturday. The violence...
ALGIERS, Thousands of protesters demanding the departure of Algeria's ruling elite rallied in Algiers for a tenth Friday. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika stepped down...
Maputo, Mozambique was bracing for a powerful cyclone to make landfall on Thursday, just one month after another cyclone devastated the country and...
JOHANNESBURG: More than 50 people were killed in southern and eastern parts of South Africa after heavy rains caused flooding and mudslides, authorities...
Johannesburg, At least five people died early Tuesday in South Africa's coastal city of Durban after torrential rains triggered mudslides that crushed homes,...
Algiers: Algerian police on Monday arrested the country's wealthiest man hours after detaining four other business tycoons from a powerful family with links...
BAMAKO: Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita appointed finance minister Boubou Cisse as prime minister on Monday, days after the government resigned following pressure...
Algiers: Algerian police have arrested four businessmen from a powerful family with links to the entourage of ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, state television...
Monrovia: Liberian President George Weah has been barred from his office for five days by two black snakes that slithered into the building...
KADUNA: Kidnappers in Nigeria killed a British woman and a Nigerian man, and abducted three others in the northern city of Kaduna, local...
Addis Ababa: Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned Thursday that severe malnutrition was gripping parts of southern Ethiopia where ethnic violence has driven nearly...
Soweto, South Africa: Inside the conical brick tower looming over Walter Sisulu Square in Kliptown, Soweto, Busi Hlatshwayo thoughtfully studies 10 giant bronze...
Lilongwe, Malawi, Three people died after a landslide hit a village in the Rumphi district in northern Malawi, with at least five still...
KINSHASA: Twenty-seven more people have been found dead from a boat accident on Lake Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last week,...
Nairobi: Police in Kenya have been left red-faced after thieves stole guns and ammunition from an unattended checkpost as the officers on duty...
Algiers: Hundreds of Algerians rallied Wednesday outside the offices of the country's biggest union, calling for its chief to quit over his ties...
JUBA: South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has offered to help mediate a political transition in Sudan after the fall of autocratic president Omar...
Nouakchott: Mauritania on Wednesday set June 22 for the first round of elections to succeed President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who is stepping...
