MOGADISHU, Somalia: At least 110 people have died of hunger and water-borne diseases in the last 48 hours in Somalia’s southwestern regions of...
MOGADISHU, Somalia: At least 110 people have died of hunger and water-borne diseases in the last 48 hours in Somalia’s southwestern regions of...
JOHANNESBURG: North Korean weapons barred by U.N. sanctions ended up in the hands of U.N. peacekeepers in Africa, a confidential report says. That...
Banjul, Gambia: Gambian President Adama Barrow has allowed six soldiers convicted of plotting a coup against former leader Yahya Jammeh back into the...
MAROUA, Cameroon: Boko Haram militant group is using young children on suicide bombing missions, Midjiyawa Bakari, governor of Cameroon’s Far North region, said...
HARAE, Zimbabwe: Three Zimbabwean journalists were arrested Friday morning for insulting the country’s aging strongman president. Zimbabwean police claim that the journalists --...
JOHANNESBURG: South African President Jacob Zuma said Friday his country’s constitution would have to be amended to allow for land restitution without compensation...
SYDNEY: An earthquake of 6.3 magnitude struck off Papua New Guinea on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, but there were no...
MONROVIA: The family of a Liberian Ebola nurse named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” in 2014 wants to sue a hospital whose...
Libreville: A Chadian journalist has been released without charge after four days in detention over the publication of an article criticising the country's...
Nairobi: At least 57 members of the Al Shabab extremist group were killed yesterday as African Union and Somali forces attacked one of...
BENI, Congo: A local official says five workers have been kidnapped from a gold mine in eastern Congo, including two from France and...
ADWA, Ethiopia: Ethiopia is celebrating Adwa Victory Day, marking a battle that helped to ensure that the country was never colonized. Just two...
LAGOS, Nigeria: Nearly 8,000 civilians were taken from Boko Haram hideouts in Nigeria’s insurgency-wracked northeastern region during the month of February, an army...
KAMPALA, Uganda: African members of the International Criminal Court were urged Wednesday to contribute money to a trust fund for hundreds of thousands...
Gambia: The UN is ready to help Gambia in ensuring justice for victims of the past regime if the country requests, the global...
KINSHASA: Authorities in Democratic Republic of Congo have expelled a Greenpeace employee and a filmmaker following a trip to forest communities affected by...
DAKAR: The death from childbirth of a woman named Time magazine “Person of the Year” in 2014 for her work fighting Ebola in...
Forests engulf fields that used to produce some of the world’s best tobacco around the northern Zimbabwean town of Banket, while barns that...