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-- 2019-06-05 13:27:02
The number of people killed in a crackdown on pro-democracy protests in the Sudanese capital Khartoum has risen to 60, an opposition group says, according to BBC. Members of a feared paramilitary gro...
-- 2019-06-04 20:48:56
Sudan's protest movement called Tuesday for fresh rallies and rejected the military rulers' election plan after more than 35 people were killed in what demonstrators called a "bloody massacre" by secu...
-- 2019-06-02 11:53:40
At least 18 people were wounded in two car bomb explosions that targeted a military unit in Libya’s eastern coastal city of Derna, sending plumes of black smoke into the sky, a medical source an...
-- 2019-05-29 19:14:12
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari began his second term as head of Africa's most populous nation on Wednesday, facing heightened pressure to defeat Islamic extremism and boost the oil-dependent econ...
-- 2019-05-29 12:22:20
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Libyan Ministry of Education on Tuesday signed an agreement to provide education for children affected by the armed conflict in the country. "Towar...
-- 2019-05-28 11:39:43
Egyptian security forces have committed widespread abuses against civilians in restive northern Sinai peninsula, some of which amount to war crimes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday, urging ot...
-- 2019-05-27 19:39:03
Ethiopia's foreign ministry has apologised after a map of Africa on its website incorporated neighbouring Somalia within its own borders. "We sincerely regret any confusion and misunderstanding this...
-- 2019-05-27 11:54:27
The former head of a notorious Ethiopian prison has been arrested and is expected to face trial. Hassan Ismail Ibrahim, also known as Hassan Dhere, was arrested in neighbouring Somalia in a town wher...
-- 2019-05-26 10:54:40
Witnesses say at least 20 people are dead and many others are missing after suspected extremists ambushed a military and civilian convoy in Nigeria’s northeast. The witnesses say the military w...
-- 2019-05-20 16:27:53
Egyptian security forces have killed 12 suspected Islamist militants in Cairo, the Interior Ministry said on Monday, a day after an explosion targeting a tourist bus injured at least 12 people. A rud...
-- 2019-05-20 13:45:12
An explosion targeting a tourist bus injured at least 12 people on Sunday (local time), mostly South African tourists, near a new museum being built close to the Giza pyramids in Egypt, two security s...
-- 2019-05-17 19:16:47
Facebook has removed hundreds of social media accounts and banned an Israeli firm due to "co-ordinated inauthentic behaviour" mainly targeting Africa. The fake accounts often posted on political news...
-- 2019-05-14 11:37:38
One officer and three protesters were killed and many protesters wounded in the Sudanese capital late on Monday, Sudan’s state TV said. Earlier, heavy gunfire was heard in Khartoum late into th...
-- 2019-05-13 12:41:18
The Algerian army arrested 95 illegal immigrants in various operations, the defence ministry said Sunday. Algeria's coast guards in Oran Province, 400 km northwest of the capital Algiers, foiled an a...
-- 2019-05-12 11:38:46
Islamic State (IS) killed 11 Nigerian soldiers in an attack on the northeastern town of Gajiganna, the group claimed through its news agency AMAQ on Saturday. The militant organisation said the attac...
-- 2019-05-11 13:12:18
The 300-community satellite television project of China for Ghana which started since September has been completed. Handing over the completed project in Accra city on Friday, Chinese Ambassador to G...
-- 2019-05-10 20:58:40
Dozens of migrants are thought to have died after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean off the coast of Tunisia. At least 50 people died in the incident, with 16 survivors, the UN's International...
-- 2019-05-10 18:10:16
Four foreign hostages were freed by French forces in the West African country of Burkina Faso, the French government says. Two of those released are French, while the other two are said to be an Amer...
-- 2019-05-10 13:49:55
A US air strike killed 13 Islamic State fighters in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region on Wednesday, the US military said, days after another strike killed three. The US military has ste...
-- 2019-05-07 14:26:45
A bush fire fanned by gusty winds has gutted four villages in South Sudan’s Western Bahr el Ghazal region, killing 33 people, the president’s spokesman said, adding the toll was likely to...
-- 2019-05-05 19:07:23
Recent fighting in southern Tripoli in Libya has killed 187 people and wounded 1,157, a spokesman for the ministry of health said on Saturday. The government has also transferred a number of wounded...
-- 2019-05-01 21:46:30
The White House has confirmed it is considering the designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation, after Donald Trump was personally lobbied by Egypt’s president, Abd...
-- 2019-05-01 20:10:37
The organisers of Sudan's protests have threatened a general strike and civil disobedience as tensions escalate with the military council that assumed power after the overthrow of President Omar al-Ba...
-- 2019-04-29 18:32:56
Gunmen have opened fire on a church in northern Burkina Faso, killing at least six people, officials say. The attackers reportedly arrived on seven motorbikes at the end of Sunday's service and kille...
-- 2019-04-26 13:56:52
The United Nations Higher Commission of Refugees (UNHCR) on Thursday relocated 350 illegal immigrants in a reception centre in south of the Libyan capital Tripoli. The UNHCR and the IOM relocated the...
-- 2019-04-24 17:22:26
Billions of dollars’ worth of gold is being smuggled out of Africa every year through the United Arab Emirates in the Middle East – a gateway to markets in Europe, the United States and be...
-- 2019-04-21 22:36:51
Protest leaders in Sudan are preparing to announce a civilian council they want to take power following the removal of Omar al-Bashir as president. Thousands are gathering outside army HQ in Khartoum...
-- 2019-04-21 13:30:36
Several air strikes and explosions shook the Libyan capital Tripoli overnight, residents said, in an escalation of a two-week offensive by eastern forces on the city held by the internationally recogn...
-- 2019-04-20 20:22:28
Egyptian officials unearthed eight mummies, 10 colourful sarcophagi and numerous figurines in 3,500-year-old tombs, the Ministry of Antiquities announced Tuesday. An Egyptian archaeological mission f...
-- 2019-04-20 16:10:42
Voting began on Saturday in Egypt in a referendum on proposed constitutional amendments that would extend President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi's rule. President Sisi cast his ballot at a polling station in...
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