Ouagadougou: Militants freed around 60 prisoners during an attack on a jail in northwest Burkina Faso overnight, ransacking offices and setting vehicles ablaze...
Ouagadougou: Militants freed around 60 prisoners during an attack on a jail in northwest Burkina Faso overnight, ransacking offices and setting vehicles ablaze...
South African miners are battling a growing threat miles underground in the world’s deepest platinum shafts: Gangs stealing copper cables and disrupting operations....
Egypt’s military says at least 11 troops, including an officer, have been killed in a militant attack in the restive northern part of...
MOMBASA, Kenya:In a bid to protect coastal communities from climate change and encourage investment,African nations are increasingly turning to mangrove restoration projects, with...
DAKAR: The third Ebola patient in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo has died, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, the latest...
JOHANNESBURG- Africa's first COVID-19 vaccination plant, touted last year as a trailblazer for an under-vaccinated continent frustrated by sluggish Western handouts, risks shutting...
NAIROBI: Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Sunday his government would hike the country's minimum wage by 12% immediately to help workers cope...
Conakry: A military junta in Guinea said its transition back to civilian rule will probably take more than three years, a proposal likely...
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is heading to West Africa on Saturday to join Muslims marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan...
JOHANNESBURG- South Africa may be entering a fifth COVID-19 infection wave earlier than expected, after a sustained rise in infections over the past...
GODE, Ethiopia: Malnourished children are flooding into the paediatric ward of the main hospital in Ethiopia's Gode city as the worst drought for...
NAIROBI: Africa is seeing an uptick in COVID-19 cases largely driven by a doubling in cases reported in South Africa, the World Health...
DAKAR: The Democratic Republic of Congo has kicked off Ebola vaccinations to stem an outbreak in the northwest city of Mbandaka, the World...
Zimbabwe, Africa’s biggest tobacco grower and one of the world's top exporters of the nicotine leaf, has opened its selling season for the...
GENEVA: U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths said on Tuesday that close to 2 million children risk starving to death as the Horn of...
Nairobi: A second Ebola patient has died in the northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, days after...
Ethekwini, South Africa: "Brave and fearless" is how colleagues remember South African police diver Busisiwe Mjwara, who drowned a week ago while searching...
A bomb blast by Somalia's Islamic extremist rebels hit a popular seaside restaurant in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, killing at least six people, ambulance...
