Johannesburg: South African President Jacob Zuma on Monday faced the biggest challenge to his leadership since taking power in 2009 as the ruling...
Johannesburg: South African President Jacob Zuma on Monday faced the biggest challenge to his leadership since taking power in 2009 as the ruling...
Kampala: The death toll has risen to 62 from weekend clashes in a traditional kingdom in western Uganda, which pitted security forces against...
Khartoum: Armed men have abducted three UN refugee agency staffers, including two foreigners, from Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region, a local government official told...
Nairobi: An Irish father and daughter team taking part in a cross-Africa rally escaped unhurt after crashlanding their 1930s biplane on the way...
KINSHASA: An ethnic Nande militia in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo killed about 30 civilians, mostly Hutus, on Sunday morning, local sources said,...
Kampala: At least 55 people have been killed in fierce fighting that erupted in western Uganda between security forces and a separatist militia...
ADDIS ABABA: Women in Ethiopia live under constant fear of violence, illness, hunger and poverty but they are now also facing a new...
Juba: The South Sudan government has agreed to accept the deployment of a UN-mandated regional force in Juba, a spokesman said, after months...
Kumasi: Dressed entirely in black, Tina Owusu Panin joined thousands making their way to a Ghanaian palace to mourn their "mother" -- the...
Geneva: The United Nations warned yesterday that the threat from Boko Haram jihadists was complicating efforts to help tens of thousands of Nigerian...
South African President Jacob Zuma will be questioned next week by the African National Congress' (ANC) integrity commission following persistent allegations of corruption...
Luanda: Angola yesterday postponed the trial of 37 alleged former fighters from the main UNITA opposition group who are accused of a mysterious...
NAIROBI: Burundi's government refused on Thursday to cooperate with a U.N. inquiry into months of political violence, saying accusations of abuses by its ...
BANJUL, Gambia: While state media in Gambia is government controlled and the private media practices self-censorship, political opponents of the small West African...
Yaoundé: Two female bombers were thwarted as they tried to stage a double suicide attack in Cameroon's Far North Thursday, with one blowing...
Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast: Plucked out of poverty, 1,000 children in Ivory Coast are being given a unique chance to learn golf, and 10-year-old...
Khartoum: Around 300 Sudanese students and schoolchildren marched in the capital Khartoum on Thursday, defying government efforts to quell persistent protests against fuel...
DAKAR: At the top of a hill in the heart of Senegal’s largest rubbish dump, 47-year-old Didou Farai watched as hundreds of workers...
