Africa

Mogadishu: Three soldiers died when a car bomb exploded while they were trying to defuse it on Wednesday in the Somali capital Mogadishu, police and the...

Bouake (Ivory Coast): The leaders of a nationwide military mutiny in Ivory Coast have accepted a government proposal on bonus payments and agreed to return...

Johannesburg: South Africa's top court heard arguments from opposition parties on Monday to allow a motion of no confidence against President Jacob Zuma...

Yamoussoukro: Heavy gunfire erupted on Monday in Ivory Coast's two largest cities Abidjan and Bouake, witnesses said, as the military pressed an...

Abidjan: Mutinous soldiers in Ivory Coast opened up access to the West African nation's second-biggest city, Bouake, a leader of the uprising said on...

Abidjan: Mutinous soldiers in Ivory Coast shot two people and cut off access to the second largest city, Bouake, on Saturday, as a nationwide revolt over...

Nairobi: Seven South Sudanese opposition groups, including that of rebel leader Riek Machar, said on Saturday they had agreed to work closely in their bid...

Juba: South Sudan's sacked former army chief Paul Malong sought on Wednesday to allay concerns he might join a revolt after leaving the capital Juba...

Madrid: Around 300 sub-Saharan African migrants stormed the six-metre razor-wire fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla early on Tuesday,...

Abuja: Some of the Chibok schoolgirls abducted three years ago by extremist Boko Haram militants refused to be part of a group of 82 girls freed at the...