Africa

Johannesburg/Pretoria: Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan flew back to South Africa on Tuesday, obeying an abrupt recall from President Jacob Zuma, and said he...

Johannesburg/London: South African President Jacob Zuma has asked Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan to return home "immediately" from an investor...

Kinhasa: Militia fighters in central Democratic Republic of Congo decapitated about 40 police officers in an ambush, local officials said on Saturday, the...

Niamey: A court in Niger has freed fifteen civilians accused of complicity in an attempted putsch against President Mahamadou Issoufou, their lawyer said on...

Abuja: The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday it is concerned about Cameroon forcing thousands of refugees to return to northeast...

Mogadishu: A car bomb exploded at a checkpoint less than a kilometre away from the presidential compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, police...

Nairobi: Three years of poor rains have triggered a national disaster in Kenya, with 2.6 million people hungry, critical rates of child malnutrition and...

Maiduguri (Nigeria): Four female teenage suicide bombers killed two people and injured 16 others in a residential area in the northeast Nigerian city of...

Addis Ababa: Police stopped people on Tuesday from entering the site of a landslide at an Ethiopian rubbish dump after bereaved families tussled with rescue...

Nairobi: Pirates have hijacked an oil tanker with eight Sri Lankan crew onboard, a Somali official said on Tuesday, the first time they have successfully...