Africa

Kochi: The Indian Navy expanded its coastal defence fleet on Wednesday with the formal launching ceremony of the seventh anti-submarine warfare shallow...

Bamako: For years,Mali has struggled to contain a growing insurgency, particularly in the country's northern region. Following the withdrawal of French...

Kinshasa: The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has continued to spread, with the number of confirmed infections rising to 3,200.The...

El Obeid: Flattened houses and rubble where a school once stood: These are the scenes that have appeared in footage of the Sudanese city of El Obeid...

More than 20 people were killed after gunmen attacked several villages in Talata Mafara in Nigeria's northern Zamfara state on Wednesday.Nasiru Lauwali, a...

Kinshasa: The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday published an overview of new data documenting the rapid spread of the current Ebola outbreak in...

KINSHASA: Confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have risen to 2,423, including 967 deaths, health authorities said in an...

Kinshasa: Countries bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo have stepped up screening at border crossings, trained front-line health workers and...

A school bus crash overnight in Uganda has killed 20 pupils and one adult, injuring several others, police said on Friday. Uganda's government said it...

New Delhi: President of Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania, and Chairman of the Revolutionary Council, Hussein Ali Mwinyi, will pay an official visit to...