Nairobi: Kenya's chief prosecutor has ordered the police and anti-corruption agency to investigate the country's election commission for alleged "irregularities and illegalities" in...
Nairobi: Kenya's chief prosecutor has ordered the police and anti-corruption agency to investigate the country's election commission for alleged "irregularities and illegalities" in...
Nairobi: Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta will remain president until a new leader is sworn in, the country’s attorney general said yesterday, seeking to assuage...
Goma, DR Congo: At least 12 people died and 92 were missing after heavy rains caused flooding in two villages in eastern Democratic...
Khartoum: The 16th Sudanese-Ethiopian joint military committee concluded its talks in Khartoum at the level of chiefs of staff. Following the closing session,...
Juba: An outbreak of fighting between government and rebel forces in South Sudan's oil-producing north left at least 25 people dead, a state...
Johannesburg: Rhino horn smugglers in South Africa are increasingly supplying the jewellery trade, marking a shift away from sales to traditional medicine makers,...
TRIPOLI, Libya: Libya’s UN-backed unity government has denied reports that it had given Italy a green light to establish a “logistics hub” on...
Kananga, DR Congo: After more than a year of bloodshed, faint hopes of peace are starting to stir in the heart of the...
Lagos Nigeria: The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) Saturday called on the government and security agencies to rein in Igbo secessionists...
KHARTOUM: The Sudanese government on Saturday denied claims by a prominent rebel group that it violated the terms of a countrywide cease-fire last...
Bukavu, DR Congo: Troops shot dead 18 Burundian refugees in clashes in Kamanyola in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials in the...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: The leaders of eastern Ethiopia's Oromia and Somali regional states are working jointly to defuse the ongoing conflict in the...
LONDON: Your afternoon chocolate bar may be fuelling climate change, destroying protected forests and threatening elephants, chimpanzees and hippos in West Africa, research...
San José: The UN agency for migration is trying to improve "terrible" conditions for migrants detained in Libya, and repatriate those willing and...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Some 17 million people require humanitarian assistance in Africa’s Lake Chad Basin area, with about 8.5 million in the northeast Nigeria...
MOGADISHU: Heavy fighting erupted on Monday in the Somali border town of Balad Hawo near Kenya after Al Shabaab detonated a suicide car...
JOHANNESBURG: Five lions are on the loose in a rural area about 35 miles (60 km) west of South Africa’s commercial capital of...
Harare: President Robert Mugabe yesterday accused a recently launched opposition alliance seeking to unseat him in next year’s elections of plotting with Western...
