BANJUL, Gambia: Gambian police have arrested the former head of the National Intelligence Agency, an institution accused of enforced disappearances and killings under...
BANJUL, Gambia: Gambian police have arrested the former head of the National Intelligence Agency, an institution accused of enforced disappearances and killings under...
LAGOS, Nigeria: At least 2,000 children were forcefully conscripted as combatants by Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants in 2016 alone, UNICEF said Tuesday as...
Juba: South Sudan's President Salva Kiir vowed that the government would ensure that aid reaches areas hit by famine after three years of...
LONDON: Britain will provide additional aid money to South Sudan, where famine has been declared in parts of the country, and to Somalia,...
JUBA: South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir yesterday promised aid agencies safe access to hunger-stricken civilians, a day after his government declared a famine...
Kampala: Ugandan authorities have seized more than a tonne of ivory, chopped into small pieces and treated with a chemical intended to prevent...
Abuja: Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari needs "further rest" so will extend his month-long medical stay in London, but there is "no cause" for...
LAGOS, Nigeria: Nigeria Monday threatened “dire consequences” if xenophobic attacks against its nationals continue unabated in South Africa, urging Pretoria to prevail on...
LAGOS, Nigeria: A bill to rein in indiscriminate polygamy, forced marriage, and easy divorce, targeting the practice of underage marriage, will be introduced...
Juba: South Sudan on Monday declared famine in some parts of the country, with more than three years of war leaving nearly five...
GARISSA, Kenya: Along a dusty road between the northern Kenyan town of Garissa and the village of Kasha, the carcasses of dozens of...
Miami: Poachers are killing elephants for their ivory at an alarming rate in the central African nation of Gabon, leading to a loss...
MOGADISHU, Somalia: Somalia's new president visited victims wounded by the Mogadishu car bomb that on Sunday killed 34. President Mohamed Abdulahi Mohamed offered...
Kinshasa: Militiamen from the Democratic Republic of Congo's Nande ethnic group have killed 25 civilians in the country's east, local officials said. "In...
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast: The world's largest cocoa producer is seeing demonstrations against a slowdown in exports and a reduced buying price. Dozens of...
Nairobi: The mediator in Burundi's nearly two-year political crisis on Sunday asked regional leaders to call an urgent summit as deep discord and...
Lisbon: Angolan Vice-President Manuel Vicente had been charged in Portugal with corruption and money laundering, the Prosecutor General’s office in Lisbon said yesterdayy....
The struggle over East Africa’s oil and gas exports is heating up. At stake are potentially billions of dollars in revenue and control...
