DAKAR: A spate of attacks by Boko Haram in southeastern Niger in recent months is hindering the delivery of aid to more than...
DAKAR: A spate of attacks by Boko Haram in southeastern Niger in recent months is hindering the delivery of aid to more than...
BANJUL, Gambia: The Internet and international telephone calls were cut across Gambia on Thursday as the presidential election got underway. Protests have also...
Banjul, Gambia: Gambian President Yahya Jammeh faces the biggest threat to his 22-year rule Thursday as the country heads to the polls following...
Banjul, Gambia: Adama Barrow, an unheard-of estate agent just six months ago, is now the flagbearer for The Gambia's opposition as it mounts...
Johannesburg: South African President Jacob Zuma survived an attempt to oust him from office after a "robust" and "difficult" debate within the ruling...
Nairobi: A top advisor to Burundi's president and the most public face of the government has escaped an assassination attempt in the capital...
MOGADIHU, Somalia: The presidential election has been once again delayed, the country’s electoral commission announced late Monday. Commission chairman Omar Mohamed Abdulle, also...
Banjul, Gambia: Gambia's president once said he would govern the country for a billion years if God willed it. But voters may deliver...
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...
