ADDIS ABABA: The leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea re-opened crossing points on their shared border on Tuesday for the first time in 20...
ADDIS ABABA: The leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea re-opened crossing points on their shared border on Tuesday for the first time in 20...
Cape Town: South Africa's murder rate rose again last year, official statistics showed Tuesday, with over 20,000 killed across the country -- about...
NAIROBI, The leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea visited their shared border to celebrate Ethiopian new year together on Tuesday - marking the countries'...
Accra: The body of Kofi Annan was on Monday returned to his native Ghana in a solemn ceremony marking the start of official...
BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo: When Esperance Nzavaki heard she was cured of Ebola after three weeks of cutting-edge care at a medical...
Antananarivo: At least one person was killed and 37 were injured in a stampede at a football stadium in Madagascar's capital Antananarivo, hospital...
JUBA: A commercial plane crashed into a lake in South Sudan on Sunday and killed 18 people, a local official said. The 19-seater...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Residents say Boko Haram extremists have overrun a key crossroads and military outpost in northern Nigeria. Gudumbali is a town to...
JOHANNESBURG: The former president of Angola on Saturday said he made mistakes during his long rule but was holding his "head high" as...
HARARE: Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday appointed former banker Mthuli Ncube as finance minister and said Winston Chitando would remain as mines...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Suspected Boko Haram militants have kidnapped between 10 and 20 people, a family member of one of those abducted, a senator...
NAIROBI: An Ethiopian commercial ship docked in an Eritrean port for the first time in two decades on Wednesday, state-affiliated media said, in...
Jos, Nigeria, Nineteen people have been killed and scores of homes burnt in fresh violence in central Nigeria, police said, after weeks of...
LAGOS, Nigeria: At least 11 people were killed and 12 others injured when unknown gunmen opened fire at locals in central Nigeria, police...
BENI, Congo: Leoni Kahumbu remembers the night her 15-year-old daughter, Pascaline, first showed signs of Ebola. She found her fainted on the bathroom...
MOGADISHU: A huge blast was heard in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Sunday and clouds of smoke could be seen in the city, according...
Kano, Nigeria: At least 30 Nigerian soldiers died in combat with Boko Haram jihadists who overran a military base in the northeast near...
Nouakchott, Mauritania, a frontline state in the fight against Islamic extremism, went to the polls on Saturday in legislative, regional and local elections...
