Beira, Mozambique: Mozambique's Renamo opposition party on Saturday named Ossufo Momade as its interim leader after veteran chief Afonso Dhlakama, who had headed...
Beira, Mozambique: Mozambique's Renamo opposition party on Saturday named Ossufo Momade as its interim leader after veteran chief Afonso Dhlakama, who had headed...
Mogadishu: Armed men abducted a German nurse working for the International Committee of the Red Cross on Wednesday evening from a compound in...
NAIROBI: With their manicured nails, immaculate make-up and matching handbags and stilettos, you would be forgiven for mistaking the five women seated in...
KIGALI: Rwandan police have arrested 23 Congolese refugees after senior police officers and government officials were pelted with stones during a visit to...
Nairobi: Burundi on Tuesday launched the official campaign for a referendum on constitutional change that could enable President Pierre Nkurunziza to stay in...
Ouagadougou: Burkinabe authorities have arrested around 100 people and seized explosives in operations in eastern and northern regions near the Malian border where...
Harare: Zimbabwe has legalised production of cannabis for medicinal or scientific use, according to new regulations seen by AFP Saturday. A statutory instrument...
Cape Town: Seven people were killed in South Africa on Friday when a train ploughed into a pickup truck at a crossing where...
KIGALI, Rwanda: Mass graves that authorities say could contain more than 2,000 bodies have been discovered in Rwanda nearly a quarter-century after the...
ADDIS ABABA: Britain must permanently return all artefacts from Ethiopia held by the Victoria and Albert Museum and Addis Ababa will not accept...
ANTANANARIVO: Thousands marched in Madagascar's capital on Monday to protest against new electoral laws and the death of a person in a similar...
Kano, Nigeria: Two suicide bombers killed three Muslim worshippers in a mosque in a northeast Nigerian town still being rebuilt after virtual destruction...
Kano, Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari's pledge to end Boko Haram's Islamist insurgency in northeast Nigeria played a large part in his 2015 presidential election...
KIREHE, Rwanda: During Burundi's brutal 12-year civil war, Maggy Barankitse set out to rescue as many children as she could. Through her efforts...
Makurdi, Nigeria: Gunmen have killed four police personnel in central Nigeria's Benue state, police said on Monday, in the latest flare-up in an...
Bangui, Central African Republic: Seventeen people and a UN peacekeeper were killed Tuesday in clashes in a Muslim enclave of Bangui, capital of...
GOLD COAST, Cameroon officials say eight of their athletes at the Commonwealth Games have gone missing from the athletes village, with two failing...
Algiers, Algeria: An Algerian plane with around 100 army personnel on board crashed on Wednesday shortly after taking off from an airbase outside...