Africa

Mogadishu: Somalia's Al Shabaab group said on Sunday it had captured some Kenyan soldiers during an attack last week on military bases in western...

Ouagadougou: Security forces in Burkina Faso retook a hotel in the capital on Saturday from Al Qaeda militants who seized it in an assault that killed two...

Freetown: A woman who died of Ebola this week in Sierra Leone potentially exposed at least 27 other people to the disease, raising the possibility of...

Bamako: A Swiss woman was kidnapped overnight from a house in the northern Mali city of Timbuktu, a spokesman for the Malian army, Souleymane Maiga told...

Mogadhishu: A suicide bomber attacked a popular restaurant in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, on Saturday, killing himself and at least three others, Somali...

Accra: Ghana's power minister has resigned after failing to resolve a three-year-old electricity crisis that President John Mahama, who seeks...