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-- 2019-03-19 16:52:36
At least 10 migrants died when their boat sank off the Libyan coast near the western town of Sabratha on Tuesday, a Libyan security official said. About 17 others were rescued, Aiman Dabbashi, Sabrat...
-- 2019-03-19 11:14:24
The number of people killed in a powerful storm and preceding floods in Mozambique could exceed 1,000, the president said on Monday, putting the potential death toll greatly more than current figures....
-- 2019-03-18 21:54:08
The death toll in Mozambique from Cyclone Idai could reach 1,000, President Filipe Nyusi has said. It made landfall close to the port city of Beira on Thursday with winds of up to 177 km/h (106 mph),...
-- 2019-03-18 14:17:49
At least 89 people have died in Zimbabwe after Cyclone Idai tore across the eastern and southern parts of the country, a government official said on Monday, creating a humanitarian crisis in a nation...
Reuters 2019-03-18 10:49:09
Ethiopia says the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane that killed 157 people had “clear similarities” with October’s Lion Air crash, revealed by initial analysis of the black boxe...
-- 2019-03-17 17:05:09
Gunmen attacked and briefly seized a Malian army base overnight, killing at least 16 soldiers and destroying five vehicles in central Mali’s Mopti region, two local councillors in the area where...
-- 2019-03-17 14:28:14
Data from the cockpit voice recorder of the Ethiopian jet that crashed last week has been successfully downloaded, France’s air accident investigation agency said on Saturday (local time). The...
-- 2019-03-16 17:09:53
At least 24 people have died in south eastern Zimbabwe as homes and bridges were swept away by a tropical storm, the country’s information ministry said on Saturday. Cyclone Idai, which brought...
-- 2019-03-16 14:34:23
Cameroon's electoral body Elections Cameroon (ELECAM) attempted to register at least 10 million voters before the legislative and municipal elections in September, said ELECAM Chairman said. The ELEC...
-- 2019-03-14 13:05:36
Kenya has signed infrastructure contracts with France worth more than 2.0 billion euros (2.26 billion US dollar). They have inked the deal on Thursday, including a 1.6 billion euro 30-year concession...
-- 2019-03-14 12:45:12
At least 10 people have died and many more are feared trapped after a building containing a school collapsed in the Nigerian city of Lagos. The school, which was on the top floor of the four-storey b...
-- 2019-03-13 14:39:39
A senior member of Cameroon's Parliament has called on the international community and the government to be more "objective" in resolving the conflict in the two English-speaking provinces of the West...
-- 2019-03-12 17:56:33
The Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed killing 157 people was making a strange rattling noise and trailed smoke and debris as it swerved above a field of panicked cows before hitting earth, accordi...
-- 2019-03-11 21:12:17
Investigators have found the flight data recorders from an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed on Sunday, according to a BBC report. The devices recovered at the crash site were the Boeing 737 Max...
-- 2019-03-10 16:51:22
All 149 passengers and eight crew members on board an Ethiopian Airlines plane, which crashed on Sunday, have died in the tragedy. The Flight ET302 came down six minutes after it took off from Addis...
-- 2019-03-10 14:55:38
An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 passenger jet has crashed on a flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi in Kenya. The flight is believed to have had 149 passengers and eight crew members on board, the air...
Reuters 2019-03-10 10:55:33
Tunisia’s health minister Abdel-Raouf El-Sherif resigned on Saturday after 11 babies mysteriously died within 24 hours in a hospital in the capital, state news agency TAP said. The health minis...
-- 2019-03-06 12:57:50
A strike prompted by a labour dispute grounded flights at Kenya’s main international airport in Nairobi early on Wednesday, domestic media said, with flag carrier Kenya Airways saying flights we...
-- 2019-03-05 19:00:09
Burundi, a country in east-central Africa, has forced the United Nations to shut its local human rights office after 23 years, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said on Tuesday....
Reuters 2019-03-05 13:28:14
Kenyan police have summoned Finance Minister Henry Rotich for questioning for a second time over a multi-million dollar scandal involving advance payments for two dam projects, the head of the Directo...
-- 2019-03-04 13:15:18
Four Americans and their Kenyan pilot were killed when their helicopter crashed on a remote island in Lake Turkana in a national park in northwest Kenya, police said on Monday. The aircraft came down...
-- 2019-03-03 13:15:24
A total of 183 people were injured during protests across Algeria on Friday against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s bid for election to a fifth term, the state news agency APS said on Saturday,...
-- 2019-03-02 11:49:17
Tens of thousands of people in cities across Algeria called on President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to leave office on Friday in the country’s biggest anti-government demonstrations since the Arab Spr...
-- 2019-03-01 17:45:04
Heavy gunfire rang out across central Mogadishu on Friday as Somali special forces battled to dislodge insurgents holed up next to a hotel they bombed the previous evening, and as the death toll stemm...
-- 2019-03-01 14:09:07
A gun battle raged in Mogadishu on Friday between Somali soldiers and Al Shabaab fighters, holed up in a building next to a hotel they had hit with a suicide car bomb the previous evening. Heavy gunf...
-- 2019-03-01 10:15:56
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has suspended medical activities at the epicentre of an Ebola epidemic in Democratic Republic of Congo after two of its facilities were torched by unidentified assailant...
-- 2019-02-27 18:21:57
At least 25 people were killed when a speedy train smashed into a barrier at a train station in Egypt's capital on Wednesday, triggering an explosion and a fire. Railway officials said the train was...
-- 2019-02-27 11:59:49
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday won a second term at the helm of Africa’s largest economy and top oil producer, a tally by Reuters based on electoral commission results showed. B...
-- 2019-02-26 11:34:00
The United States military said Monday that its latest airstrike in Somalia killed 35 fighters with the al Shabaab extremist group not far from the Ethiopian border. The US military command for the A...
-- 2019-02-23 11:03:57
Sudan President Omar al-Bashir, facing the country’s biggest popular protests since he came to power 30 years ago, declared a one-year state of emergency on Friday and called on parliament to po...
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