Africa

Harare: Zimbabwe put its wild animals up for sale on Tuesday, saying it needed buyers to step in and save the beasts from a devastating drought. Members of...

Nairobi: Rescue workers pulled a 18-month-old baby girl out of the rubble of a building in Kenya's capital on Tuesday and reunited her with her father,...

Nairobi: Aid workers said hopes were fading of finding more survivors in the rubble of a collapsed building in Kenya's capital on Monday, as the death...

Nairobi: The death toll from a collapsed six-storey building in Nairobi has risen to 16 from 12, the Kenya Red Cross said on Sunday, but officials declined...

Mogadishu: Al Shabaab insurgents killed 15 Somali soldiers and retook a town northeast of the capital Mogadishu on Sunday, just one day after it had fallen...

Johannesburg: A group of 33 lions rescued from circuses in Peru and Columbia arrived by plane in Johannesburg on Saturday to begin a new life in the African...

Nairobi: Rescue workers raced on Saturday to save more residents from the rubble of a six-storey building in Nairobi after it collapsed overnight following...

Nairobi: Kenya's president set fire to thousands of elephant tusks and rhino horns on Saturday, destroying a stockpile that would have been worth a...

Mount Kenya: Kenya wants a ban on all sales of elephant ivory, its president told other African leaders and conservationists at talks on Friday on how to...

Juba: South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar was sworn in as first vice president on Tuesday, hours after he returned to the capital of Juba for the first...