Nairobi: Kenyan police fired tear gas and water cannon on Monday to disperse hundreds of people protesting at alleged bias in the country's electoral...
Johannesburg: South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan is not being investigated for espionage over his part in establishing a surveillance unit...
Diffa (Niger): When Boko Haram attacked Falmaya Baba Gama's village last year in northeast Nigeria, executing a dozen men and burning down the market,...
Cairo: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi urged the media on Friday not to speculate about the cause of an EgyptAir plane crash which killed all 66...
Kruger National Park(South Africa): South Africa's government is planning to impose limits on farm sizes to free up parcels of land to hand over to...
Paris/Cairo: The EgyptAir jet which crashed in the Mediterranean on Thursday sent a series of warnings indicating that smoke had been detected on board,...
Abuja/Lagos: A Nigerian union defied a court ban to launch a general strike on Wednesday in protest at a planned hefty increase in fuel prices, though many...
Maiduguri (Nigeria): A Nigerian teenager kidnapped by Boko Haram more than two years ago has been rescued, the first of more than 200 girls seized in a raid...
Kampala: Uganda's main opposition figure Kizza Besigye has been ordered detained until June 1 on charges of treason, a judicial official said, days...
Nairobi: Kenya's authorities tore down a badly built residential block in a poor Nairobi district on Tuesday, one of more than 250 shoddy buildings that...
