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-- 2019-09-26 20:37:20
A landslide at an illegal gold mine in Chad has killed about 30 people, a government minister said on Thursday, reports Reuters. The mine in the Tibesti region near the Libyan border collapsed early...
-- 2019-09-24 14:57:55
Eight infants died in a fire in a hospital in Algeria’s El Oued early on Tuesday the fire service was quoted as saying on state media without giving any further details. The government has open...
-- 2019-09-23 14:35:03
A school collapsed in Kenya's capital on Monday morning, and officials said at least seven children were killed. Parents wailed at the scene of The Precious Talent Top School in Nairobi. Hundreds of...
-- 2019-09-21 14:49:04
Hundreds protested in central Cairo and several other Egyptian cities late on Friday against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, responding to an online call for a demonstration against government corrupt...
-- 2019-09-20 19:04:42
A Zimbabwean doctor whose alleged abduction led to days of protests has been freed, activists announced on Friday, as the government asserted he had simply been missing. The disappearance had raised...
Reuters 2019-09-19 11:01:29
A fire at an Islamic school in Liberia has killed at least 27 children, police said on Wednesday. “The kids were learning the Koran when the fire broke out,” police spokesman Moses Carter...
-- 2019-09-16 12:24:48
At least 34 people are feared drowned after a boat sank on the River Congo. Police said 76 passengers were rescued from the whaleboat - a flat-bottomed vessel used to transport people on lakes and ri...
-- 2019-09-15 13:59:03
Tunisians began casting votes in an unpredictable presidential election on Sunday where there is no overwhelming front-runner, with the young democracy’s economic ills dominating the agenda. Po...
Xinhua 2019-09-14 14:12:40
A surge in inter-communal violence is worsening humanitarian conditions in Mali and 3.9 million people there need humanitarian assistance, spokesman for United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio G...
Reuters 2019-09-13 13:21:17
Up to 50 people were killed when a cargo train derailed in Congo’s southeastern province of Tanganyika in the early hours of Thursday, government officials said, though reports on casualties dif...
-- 2019-09-10 12:39:10
Nigeria will evacuate hundreds of its citizens from South Africa following a string of xenophobic attacks, a government official told CNN on Monday. Flights carrying the returnees will start leaving...
Reuters 2019-09-09 13:09:40
The family of Zimbabwe founder Robert Mugabe is pushing back against the government’s plan to bury him at the National Heroes Acre monument in Harare and wants him to be buried in his home villa...
Reuters 2019-09-06 13:58:36
Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe was feted as an African liberation hero and champion of racial reconciliation when he first came to power in a nation divided by nearly a century of white colonial rule....
-- 2019-09-06 12:03:47
Robert Mugabe, the guerrilla leader who led Zimbabwe to independence in 1980, died aged 95 on Friday, two years after the army brought an ignominious end to almost four decades of his iron-fisted rule...
-- 2019-09-05 13:52:43
The youngest son of Egypt’s former president, Mohamed M0rsi, died on Wednesday from a heart attack, his brother and a family lawyer told Reuters news agency, 2-1/2 months after his father’...
-- 2019-09-04 13:46:12
A makeshift bomb exploded under a passenger bus traveling in the violence-plagued central Mali region of Mopti on Tuesday, killing at least 14 people and wounding 24, the security minister said. The...
-- 2019-09-02 14:16:35
The United Nations secretary general visited Congo’s eastern city of Beni on Sunday, pledging solidarity as the region faces an Ebola outbreak that has killed nearly 2,000 people in a year and o...
-- 2019-08-26 12:03:36
Torrential rain and floods have killed 62 people in Sudan, according to the official state news agency. The country has been battered by heavy rains since early July, affecting almost 200,000 people...
Xinhua 2019-08-24 15:48:00
More than 1.9 million children across a swath of eight West and Central African countries have been forced out of their schools by violence, a UN spokeswoman said on Friday. Eri Kaneko, associate spo...
-- 2019-08-20 12:59:04
Unidentified militants killed at least 10 soldiers and wounded many others in an attack on a military unit in northern Burkina Faso on Monday, the army said. Burkina Faso has been overrun by Islamist...
-- 2019-08-19 17:31:33
Somali special forces (Danab) killed 20 al-Shabab militants in counter-offensive in southern Somali region of Lower Shabelle on Sunday night, officials said on Monday. Odawa Yusuf Rage, the commander...
-- 2019-08-19 11:53:18
At least 10 people were killed when a fuel truck exploded in flames after losing control and ramming into three cars in western Uganda on Sunday, police said in a statement. “So far, 9 burnt bo...
-- 2019-08-11 11:28:24
A bomb-laden vehicle exploded Saturday outside a shopping mall in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi, killing at least three UN staff members, a spokesman for the United Nations secretary-general said....
Xinhua 2019-08-10 18:57:58
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Thursday called for a humanitarian truce between the rival parties in Libya, as the armed conflict in the capital Tripoli continues between the...
-- 2019-08-10 17:18:11
A fuel tanker exploded in eastern Tanzania on Saturday killing at least 60 people as flames ripped through a crowd that had gathered to siphon petrol from it. Video clips circulating on social media...
-- 2019-08-09 11:25:44
Security forces killed at least 17 suspected militants in raids in Cairo and in another province, Egypt officials said Thursday, four days after a car filled with explosives wrecked outside the county...
-- 2019-08-08 15:25:13
Some Kenyan lawmakers are protesting a decision by the temporary speaker of parliament's lower house to eject their colleague who was holding her young child during a session of the legislature. Zule...
-- 2019-08-07 11:50:13
The UN has stepped up its emergency appeal for Zimbabwe, warning that more than five million people - a third of the population - are in need of aid. The World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a $33...
-- 2019-08-05 10:56:54
A multiple-car crash set off an explosion that ignited a fire at Egypt's main cancer hospital and caused 19 deaths, the government said. The health ministry said 30 others were injured by the crash n...
-- 2019-08-04 12:28:38
A light plane crashed in western Tanzania on Saturday, killing two South Africans, officials said late on Saturday. The plane with registration ZU-TAF-19 is a four-seater Sling plane from South Afric...
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