Bangui, Central African Republic: Voting began in presidential and legislative elections in the Central African Republic on Sunday, in a key test for...
Bangui, Central African Republic: Voting began in presidential and legislative elections in the Central African Republic on Sunday, in a key test for...
Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou’s favored successor, Mohamed Bazoum, is the front-runner to win Sunday’s elections, after the main opposition challenger was barred from...
BANGUI, Central African Republic: Three peacekeepers from Burundi were killed and two others wounded in Central African Republic in attacks Friday by armed...
Johannesburg: At least 15 people have died in recent weeks on the South African side of the Beitbridge border with Zimbabwe in lengthy...
Niger-vote-unrestNiamey: Seven troops and 11 suspected jihadists have died in clashes in a troubled western region of Niger ahead of elections this weekend,...
Kano, Nigeria: Local vigilantes rescued dozens of schoolchildren abducted by bandits in the northern Nigerian state of Katsina after a gun battle, police...
Kankara, Nigeria: Annas Shuaibu says he awoke to the sound of gunshots fired by men who burst into his boarding school in northwest...
Katsina, Nigeria: Dozens of schoolboys who were rescued from kidnappers in northwest Nigeria arrived back home on Friday, many of them barefoot and...
KINSHASA: The Democratic Republic of Congo will impose a curfew and other strict measures, including the mandatory wearing of masks in public spaces,...
Lagos: The latest abduction of 333 schoolchildren claimed by Boko Haram comes nearly three years after 111 schoolgirls were snatched by jihadists in...
Lagos: Gunmen have raided a government secondary school in northern Nigeria's Katsina state, police said Saturday, in an apparent kidnapping attempt for ransom....
Johannesburg - South Africa, the country most affected by the coronavirus on the continent, has entered a second wave of the pandemic, the...
Nairobi: Conservationists are working to rescue giraffes stranded on an island in Lake Boringo in western Kenya after heavy rains led to the...
Tunis - Tunisia on Sunday extended a night-time curfew until the end of the year in a bid to tackle spiking novel coronavirus...
ACCRA, Ghana: Ghanaians head to the polls for general elections on Dec. 7 that many contend will be a close race between the...
NAIROBI, Kenya: Africa’s top public health official says 60% of the continent’s population needs to be vaccinated against the coronavirus in the next...
Lagos: Police in Nigeria have rescued 10 people, including four children, four pregnant women and two other women from an illegal maternity home,...
Addis Ababa: Rockets launched from Ethiopia's northern Tigray region targeted the capital of Eritrea several hours after Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared...
