Africa

Mogadishu: Militants set off two car bombs outside a police base in Somalia's capital before gunmen stormed inside on Sunday, leaving at least 10 people...

United Nations: The United Nations Security Council extended a peacekeeping mission in South Sudan on Friday until August 12 as the United States warned...

Juba: South Sudan's new vice president, Taban Deng Gai, poured scorn on his predecessor Riek Machar and suggested he go into exile, deepening a rift at...

Mogadishu: Suicide bombers killed at least 13 people at the gates of the African Union's main peacekeeping base in the Somali capital on Tuesday, police...

Nairobi: President Barack Obama's half-brother, Malik Obama, says he will vote for Republican nominee Donald Trump in the US election in November...

Harare: Zimbabwe's government denounced leading independence war veterans as traitors on Saturday for an unprecedented attack on ageing President Robert...

Juba: A rift appeared in one of South Sudan's two main rival groups on Friday, raising the prospect of further turmoil after months of fighting, as...

Kigali: Zimbabwe's finance minister blamed international sanctions on Sunday for a cash crunch that has forced the government to delay wages to soldiers...

Juba: South Sudan's vice president has withdrawn with his troops to outside of Juba but is not planning for war, his spokesman said on Wednesday, as a...

Bujumbura: A Burundian member of the East African Legislative Assembly was shot dead on Wednesday in what Rwanda's foreign minister called an...