Africa

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...

Juba: South Sudanese rebels have kidnapped eight locals working for a U.S. charity and are demanding aid deliveries as ransom, a military spokesman said on...

Addis Ababa: Desperate parents scrabbled through a towering pile of fetid garbage in the Ethiopian capital on Monday, screaming the names of missing...

Johannesburg: South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) needs to end corruption and party divisions, and deliver on promises to tackle...

Antananarivo: At least 38 people have been killed by Cyclone Enawo that struck Madagascar this week, according to an official of the country's disaster...

Cape Town: South African authorities have been asked to appear at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on April 7 over the failure to arrest Sudanese...

Matoba (Zimbabwe): Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said on Saturday he would not impose his successor and that if the ruling ZANU-PF party felt he should...

Mogadishu: Somalia's new president was inaugurated on Wednesday, promising his people that the era of Al Shabaab and other extremist militant groups was...

Abuja: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari needs further rest in Britain following medical tests but there is no need to worry about his health, his...

Mogadishu: A car bomb ripped through a market in Mogadishu on Sunday, killing 39 people and injuring around 50, a local official said, days after Somalia...