DAKAR, Senegal: Doctors Without Borders is warning that the effort to control Congo's Ebola outbreak is hampered by a "toxic" security situation including...
DAKAR, Senegal: Doctors Without Borders is warning that the effort to control Congo's Ebola outbreak is hampered by a "toxic" security situation including...
Mogadishu: A "heavy" explosion rocked central Mogadishu Thursday morning, leaving an unknown number of casualties, a security official and witnesses said. "The blast...
Nairobi: A Tanzanian court sentenced a teacher to death Wednesday after a 13-year-old pupil died from a beating meted out by him in...
Nairobi: A strike prompted by a labour dispute grounded flights at Kenya's main international airport in Nairobi early on Wednesday, domestic media said,...
GENEVA: Burundi has forced the United Nations to shut its local human rights office after 23 years, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights...
Beni, DR Congo: An Ebola treatment centre in eastern DR Congo has reopened after an attack by gunmen last Wednesday forced its closure,...
NAIROBI: Four Americans and their Kenyan pilot were killed when their helicopter crashed on a remote island in Lake Turkana in a national...
LAGOS, Nigeria: Seven people were killed in an early morning attack which locals blamed on herders in Benue state, Nigerian army confirmed on...
Lagos: A Nigerian court has condemned as "illegal and unconstitutional" the arrest and deportation of Cameroonian separatists who had applied for asylum in...
WARRI, Nigeria: More than 50 people are missing after a leaking oil pipeline exploded and caused a stampede in southern Nigeria, a local...
Mogadishu: At least five people were killed and more than 25 wounded when a suicide car bomb targeted a hotel in Somali capital...
Lagos: Muhammadu Buhari may have won re-election as Nigeria's president but he faces a daunting list of present and long-term challenges over the...
Johannesburg: A pastor in South Africa who claimed to have performed a resurrection has sparked a social media craze as users took to...
ABUJA, Nigeria: Nigeria's president on Wednesday defended his sweeping win of a second term as free and fair and appealed to a "common...
ABUJA,: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari extended his early election lead on Tuesday based on official results from a third of the country's districts...
Dakar: Senegalese leader Macky Sall's camp crowed victory on Monday after presidential elections for which his key rivals had been barred, but the...
Abuja: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari scored early gains on Monday in his bid for re-election after dozens died in weekend violence and monitors...
Nairobi, A leader of Tanzania's main opposition has been released on bail after her arrest for "seditious" remarks, colleagues from her Chadema party...