Africa

Mogadishu: A group loyal to IS seized a small port town in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region on Wednesday, a move officials said gave it control...

Mogadishu: Somalia's Al Shabaab militant group rammed a military base with a suicide truck bomb, shot dead an intelligence officer and killed 12 people...

Cape Town: Splits are widening in South Africa’s ruling African National Congress over President Jacob Zuma’s leadership and a decision by prosecutors...

Mogadishu: Militant group Al Shabaab on Sunday seized control of yet another town in central Somalia after it was abandoned by African Union peacekeepers, a...

Pretoria: South Africa said on Friday it was quitting the International Criminal Court (ICC) because membership conflicted with diplomatic immunity laws,...

Kinshasa: Congolese state security services shot, burned, beat and hacked to death at least 48 civilians and reportedly hired thugs to attack protests last...

Mogadishu: A suicide car bomb and gun attack in the Somali town of Afgoye on Tuesday killed 11 people, including government employees, an official said,...

Abuja/Dakar: The 21 Nigerian schoolgirls freed by Boko Haram militants last week after two-and-a-half years' captivity urgently need support to...

ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia imposed curbs on its opposition, travel restrictions on diplomats, and a dusk-to-dawn curfew around major projects in new measures...

Johannesburg: South Africa's Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa came out in support of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan on Sunday and said fraud charges...