Dakar: Senegal's army said Saturday that it had intercepted a boat carrying over 200 migrants trying to reach Europe, after nearly 90 died...
Dakar: Senegal's army said Saturday that it had intercepted a boat carrying over 200 migrants trying to reach Europe, after nearly 90 died...
Geneva: The United Nations said on Friday it was "extremely worried" about the fate of two Guinea opposition leaders reportedly tortured in custody,...
Windhoek: Namibia said Friday it had declined a visa extension to a Ugandan king visiting for medical treatment after rumours he had been...
Nairobi: Kenya's embattled President William Ruto on Friday unveiled a new partial cabinet as he works to form a "broad-based" government, his latest...
Cairo: Hospitals and other healthcare facilities in war-torn Sudan are facing increased attacks, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Wednesday as...
Washington: The International Monetary Fund announced Wednesday a $71 million disbursement towards Niger, which was hit by political instability after a military takeover...
Johannesburg: South Africa's ruling ANC kicked off disciplinary hearings against former president Jacob Zuma Wednesday that could result in his expulsion for leading...
Johannesburg: Authorities were scouring the ocean off South Africa's east coast Wednesday for 44 containers missing after breaking loose from a French-owned ship...
Kigali: Rwanda's President Paul Kagame won a crushing election victory that will extend his iron-fisted rule by another five years, according to partial...
Nairobi:Kenyan police said Monday they had arrested a "serial killer" suspect who had confessed to murdering 42 women before dumping their dismembered bodies...
Mogadishu: The death toll from a blast at a cafe in Somalia's capital Mogadishu has climbed to nine, security sources told AFP Monday,...
Harare: Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Sunday launched a long-awaited process of reconciliation over notorious 1980s massacres by government troops that claimed tens...
Nairobi: Eight female bodies have been recovered so far from a dumpsite in a Nairobi slum, Kenyan police said Sunday, adding that they...
Nairobi: Kenyan police on Saturday said that they had retrieved three more bags filled with dismembered female body parts in a grisly discovery...
Mogadishu, Somalia:Five prisoners and three soldiers were killed Saturday in a failed attempt by some inmates to break out of a prison in...
Freetown: Sierra Leone's security forces arrested seven people in connection with a suspected bomb plot, while seizing TNT explosives, drugs and other materials,...
Mogadishu: Five inmates said to be from Somalia's Al-Shabaab jihadist group and a guard were killed in a blaze of gunfire during an...
Nairobi: Kenya's police watchdog said it is investigating whether there is any police involvement in the gruesome discovery of mutilated bodies dumped in...
