Nouakchott: The first round of Mauritania's presidential election will take place on June 29, with a possible second round on July 14, according...
Nouakchott: The first round of Mauritania's presidential election will take place on June 29, with a possible second round on July 14, according...
Nairobi: Kenya began three days of mourning on Friday after its defence chief and nine other senior officers were killed in a helicopter...
Abuja: Nigerian troops rescued another of the missing Chibok girls, 10 years after Boko Haram jihadists kidnapped more than 270 of them from...
Nairobi: Kenya's President William Ruto on Thursday convened an urgent meeting of the country's security council, State House announced after a helicopter reportedly...
PARIS: World donors pledged more than $2.1 billion in humanitarian aid for Sudan after a yearlong war that has pushed its population to...
Paris, France: A yearlong war in Sudan has devastated the country and pushed its people to the brink of famine. Top diplomats and...
Safo,Mali: Most of the students had never seen their native language in its written form until recently. Now, they were eagerly sounding out...
Niamey, Niger: Thousands of people in Niger's capital on Saturday protested for the immediate departure of US soldiers from the north, after the...
Kigali: A Rwandan woman expelled to her homeland three years ago from the United States has been given a life sentence for her...
Geneva: Africa's most populous nation Nigeria has launched a "revolutionary" vaccine against meningitis, in what the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said...
Bamako: Mali's ruling junta will only organise elections to hand back power to civilians once the security situation has been completely stabilised, the...
Geneva: The United Nations on Friday warned that the humanitarian crisis triggered by the conflict inSudancould worsen dramatically in the coming months, tipping...
Goma, DR Congo: Seven villagers have been killed in Virunga National Park in volatile eastern DR Congo after going to fetch charcoal, local...
Johannesburg: The electoral commission said Friday it had appealed to South Africa's highest court to rule on whether ex-president Jacob Zuma can stand...
Nairobi, Kenya: Heavy rains pounding different parts of Kenya have led to the deaths of at least 13 people and displaced some 15,000...
Nairobi, Kenya:A shootout between militiamen and police officers killed three people Friday in the Ethiopian capital in a rare case of the country's...
New York: The United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on Sudan called on the warring parties to adhere to an immediate ceasefire, end attacks on...
Johannesburg: A South African court on Tuesday allowed former president Jacob Zuma to run in May's general elections, overturning a decision by electoral...