Rome: An Italian priest has been kidnapped by gunmen in southern Nigeria, church officials in both countries have said. Maurizio Pallu was snatched...
Rome: An Italian priest has been kidnapped by gunmen in southern Nigeria, church officials in both countries have said. Maurizio Pallu was snatched...
LAGOS, Nigeria: At least 45 Boko Haram militants were convicted on terrorism charges on Friday during a secret trial, Nigerian information minister Lai...
NAIROBI, Kenya: Police allegedly killed three protesters on Friday during anti-government demonstrations that turned violent in the East African country. The protests came...
Mozogo, Cameroon: Nearly 60 men who said they were captured by the Boko Haram Islamist group and forced to fight for them in...
LILONGWE: Malawi President Peter Mutharika on Friday warned suspected vampires to stop terrorising people and told village chiefs to stamp down on witchcraft....
NAIROBI, Kenya: A five-story building collapsed on Wednesday in Kenya’s southwestern Kisii county, killing at least seven people and burying around 50 people...
ARU, Democratic Republic of Congo: Although the presidential elections in Democratic Republic of Congo are supposed to take place at the end of...
JOHANNESBURG: At least eight people were killed when a storm hit South Africa’s coastal province KwaZulu-Natal, an official said Wednesday. Lennox Mabaso, spokesman...
United Nations, United States: Peacekeepers in the Central African Republic are accused of sexually abusing a teenage girl, the United Nations said Wednesday,...
Nairobi: Supporters of Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga took to the streets Wednesday as poll officials mull their next move after his withdrawal...
MOMBASA: Several students have been injured in Kenya after gunmen opened fire at the Technical University of Mombasa's campus in coastal Kwale county....
Monrovia: Liberians go to the polls on Tuesday to elect a new president after 12 years under Africa's first elected female leader, Ellen...
Kano, Nigeria: Nigeria on Monday prepared for its first major prosecutions of suspects linked to the Boko Haram conflict in closed-door trials at...
Kinshasa: Rebels from a Ugandan-dominated group on Monday attacked a UN military base in DR Congo's unstable east, killing one peacekeeper and injuring...
CASABLANCA, Morocco: Thousands of people came out in the streets of northern Casablanca city Sunday in protest against the state’s continued detention of...
LUSAKA: Eleven cases of cholera have been recorded so far in Zambian capital Lusaka, the nation's health minister said Sunday. "The affected compounds...
BOSASO, Somalia: Islamist militants attacked a checkpoint in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region, killing at least five people in the early hours of Monday,...
Hammanskraal, South Africa: Time is running out for 95-year-old Phillip Mabelane. For 40 years he has waited to discover the truth of how...