Africa

Dodoma: Mortar fire in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) killed three Tanzanian soldiers who were part of a Southern African peacekeeping...

A makeshift ferry capsized and sank off the northern coast of Mozambique Sunday, killing more than 90 people on board, according to several media...

New Delhi: The Qutub Minar was lit up with the colours of the Rwandan national flag on Sunday in solidarity with the people of the east-African nation in...

Pretoria: Speaker of South Africa's National Assembly Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula resigned Wednesday, a day after losing a court bid that would block her arrest...

Dakar: Senegal's highest judicial authority, the Constitutional Council, has officially affirmed the triumph of opposition leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye in...

A bus carrying worshippers from Botswana has plunged off a bridge in South Africa, killing 45 people on board.

Dakar: Senegalese opposition candidate and tax inspector Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Monday appeared to be reaching victory in Senegal's presidential...

Bissau: Since Umaro Sissoco Embalo became president of Guinea-Bissau three years ago, he has gradually led the West African country into a grave political...

Dakar: Senegal's eligible voters are heading to the polls to elect a new president, after the conclusion of incumbent President Macky Sall's second...

Abuja: Nearly 150 kidnapped schoolchildren were rescued in northern Nigeria on Sunday after they were abducted two weeks ago.The mass kidnapping of 287...