World / Africa

ADDIS ABABA: Police in Ethiopia fired teargas and shots into the air on Sunday to disperse protesters who chanted anti-government slogans during a...

Nairobi: Police killings of Kenyans are on the rise, a Kenyan newspaper said on Sunday, as it published the country's first comprehensive database...

Mogadishu: At least two people were killed and five injured Saturday when a car loaded with explosives blew up near a restaurant in...

KINSHASA: The president of Democratic Republic of Congo's electoral commission said on Saturday that he expects the presidential election, originally scheduled for November,...

Abuja: The wife of Nigeria's central bank governor was kidnapped and held for some 24 hours, police and security sources said on Saturday,...

The Hague: The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court Tuesday welcomed a nine-year jail sentence imposed on a Malian jihadist for destroying...

HARARE: Zimbabwe police fired teargas at stone-throwing vendors resisting removal from city streets on Tuesday in the latest flare-up of protests against President ...

Bamako: One soldier and a civilian were killed in Mali's ancient city of Timbuktu in a suspected jihadist attack, military sources told AFP...

LAGOS, Nigeria:  Eight soldiers and 25 Boko Haram fighters were killed in two separate encounters in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state on Sunday as...

JOHANNESBURG: Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa’s chances of becoming the next leader of South Africa got a boost on Monday when a powerful mining...

BAUCHI, Nigeria: The leader of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, appeared in a video posted on social media on Sunday...

LIBREVILLE: Gabon's government deployed a heavy security presence in the capital Libreville on Saturday in an attempt to head off potential unrest following...

Kinshasa: Shops and petrol stations reopened for business in the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo Wednesday but residents kept children from school...

Mourners pay their respect by an improvised altar for those who perished during the post electoral violence in Libreville on September 6, 2016...

  By Godfrey Olukya  ARU, Democratic Republic of Congo: Congolese army has said it killed 20 insurgents, six of whom were Rwandans since the...

LONDON: Britain is proposing a near-total ban on the sale of ivory products as part of efforts to stop endangered African elephants being...

By Hassan Isilow JOHANNESBURG:  South Sudan is committed to peace and will not return to civil war, the country’s vice president said in...

Niamey: Seven Niger soldiers were killed and eight others wounded in two separate attacks by Boko Haram Islamists over the past week, the...