Niamey: Suspected members of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram abducted around a dozen girls in raids on several border villages in southeastern Niger,...
Niamey: Suspected members of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram abducted around a dozen girls in raids on several border villages in southeastern Niger,...
JOHANNESBURG: Zimbabwe's state-run media say three Finnish nationals and two locals have died in the crash of a small private plane. The Zimbabwe...
LISBON: Portugal promised on Friday to help the government of Angola repatriate funds obtained through corruption and deposited in the Iberian country, as...
JOHANNESBURG: A war crimes suspect from the Central African Republic (CAR) on Friday appeared before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague...
Paris: Seven employees of a French mine drilling firm and a local official were shot dead early Thursday when their site was attacked...
Nairobi: Gunmen kidnapped an Italian volunteer in southeast Kenya and shot five people late on Tuesday, police said, in the first abduction of...
NAIROBI: Kenyan police said on Wednesday unidentified gunmen kidnapped an Italian volunteer working at a non-governmental organisation in an attack on a trading...
Kano, Nigeria: Boko Haram jihadists have killed 53 soldiers and farmers in three days of attacks in northeastern Nigeria, security sources said Tuesday,...
ABUJA: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari launched his manifesto on Sunday, hoping his anti-corruption agenda can win him a second term at a Feb....
LONDON: The number of hungry children in West Africa's Sahel region reached a 10-year high in 2018 due to poor rains, conflict and...
Cape Town, The South African city of Cape Town, which nearly ran out of water this year, could beat future droughts by cutting...
Harare: At least 42 passengers were killed, Zimbabwe police said Friday, after a suspected gas cylinder exploded on a bus, with pictures showing...
GOMA: At least seven U.N. peacekeepers were killed in clashes with militias in an area that is at the centre of the Democratic...
JUBA, South Sudan: South Sudan is planning to construct a new state capital in a central location in what was a wildlife park,...
YAOUNDE, Cameroon: Cameroon's military says it has killed least 30 separatists in the past few days in the country's restive North West region....
NAIROBI: A Kenyan judge on Wednesday sentenced two police officers to death for killing a colleague and two civilians in 2014. The decision...
Kano: Boko Haram jihadists have killed at least 16 farmers and left dozens missing in the latest attacks in restive northeast Nigeria's Borno...
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian authorities have arrested the former head of the military-run industrial conglomerate METEC, state media reported on Tuesday, after the attorney...
