Africa

Harare: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is in Singapore for medical treatment, in his third such visit this year, a newspaper reported on...

Mombasa: Suspected militants beheaded nine men in an overnight attack on a village in the Kenyan coastal district of Lamu, police said, days after Somali...

Nairobi: Kenya's interior minister has died in hospital, the government said on Saturday, a month before the country is due to hold national...

Johannesburg: Seven people died in a high-rise apartment block fire in Johannesburg on Wednesday including a man who jumped to his death to escape the...

Mogadishu: A roadside bomb struck a minibus north of the Somali capital Mogadishu late on Saturday, killing two people and injuring six others, police...

Nairobi: At least 10 people were killed on Tuesday in a car bomb attack on a government building in the Somali capital of Mogadishu that was claimed by...

Bamako: A luxury resort popular with Western expatriates outside Mali's capital Bamako came under attack by gunmen on Sunday, the Security Ministry...

Juba: When South Sudan's civil war erupted in 2013, Nyayath Uluak was caught in crossfire in the northern town of Malakal and a bullet tore her leg...

Mogadishu: At least 19 people were killed when militants launched a car bomb and gun attack on a busy hotel and adjacent restaurant in the Somali capital, a...