BAMAKO: Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita appointed finance minister Boubou Cisse as prime minister on Monday, days after the government resigned following pressure...
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...
NAIROBI: The Kenyan capital has experienced a jump in cholera cases, one of the city's top hospitals said on Tuesday, adding that eight...
N'Djamena: Fighting between Chad soldiers and Boko Haram rebels killed dozens, including 63 "terrorists", in an overnight attack on a military base, an...
Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari told an election tribunal the candidate he beat in a February vote was not a citizen of Nigeria by...
Mozogo, Cameroon: "My life changed completely," said 14-year-old Ina Viche, recalling the day in 2016 when her parents were killed by Boko Haram...
NAIROBI: Gunmen abducted two Cuban doctors near Kenya's border with Somalia as they were going to work, a county government official said on...
HARARE, Zimbabwe: The death toll from the cyclone that ripped into southern Africa last month is now above 1,000, while the number of...
