-- 2021-10-20 17:38:30
At least 50 people were killed in the southern Democratic Republic of Congo when a truck overturned and plunged into a river, the provincial governor's office said on Tuesday. The accident occurred o...
-- 2021-10-19 20:13:30
A Haitian gang that kidnapped a group of American and Canadian missionaries is asking for $17 million to release them, an official has said. Justice Minister Liszt Quitel said the FBI and Haitian pol...
Rakimul Huq 2021-10-19 14:04:11
South Africa have always been known for producing some of the cricket world’s most exceptional talents. Despite their reputation of choking, this is perhaps the first time they’re walking...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-10-19 11:18:30
Gunmen across northwestern Nigeria killed scores of people and kidnapped hundreds more for ransom over the past year in a security crisis that the government is trying to tackle via communications bla...
-- 2021-10-17 12:21:31
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in front of the presidential palace in Khartoum on Saturday calling for the military to seize power as Sudan grapples with the biggest political crisis in its two...
-- 2021-10-12 19:27:25
A group of 15 Nigerian women and children trekked through the bush for six days to escape from Islamist militants who had kidnapped them from churches in the northeast, a state governor said, reports...
-- 2021-10-12 14:24:02
The UN refugee agency said it had recovered the bodies of 15 migrants and 177 survivors from two coastguard boats returning to Libya people who had sought to cross the Mediterranean. Attempted crossi...
-- 2021-10-09 18:48:07
More than 50 people have died and more are believed to be missing following the capsizing of a makeshift vessel on the Congo River earlier this week, according to provincial authorities in the Democra...
-- 2021-10-06 20:25:54
Google plans to invest $1 billion in Africa over the next five years to ensure access to fast and cheaper internet and will back startups to support the continent's digital transformation, it said on...
-- 2021-09-25 17:57:35
A suicide car bomb killed at least eight people in the Somali capital on Saturday at a street junction near the president's palace, police said, and al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab said it was behind the a...
-- 2021-09-23 18:45:41
Algeria announced the closure of its airspace to all Moroccan civil and military aircraft on Wednesday, less than a month after it cut diplomatic relations with the Kingdom. The supreme security coun...
-- 2021-09-21 18:01:38
Sudanese authorities have contained a failed coup attempt and the situation has been brought under control, a member of the country's ruling council told Reuters on Tuesday. Interrogation of suspects...
-- 2021-09-20 16:18:44
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry held on Sunday a phone conversation with his Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid, and urged Israel to revive peace talks with the Palestinian side to end their decad...
-- 2021-09-18 12:40:54
Former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has died at 84, the presidency said on Friday, more than two years after he stepped down under pressure from mass protests and the army. Bouteflika, a v...
-- 2021-09-13 21:35:53
Heavily-armed gunmen raided a jail in south-central Nigeria late on Sunday, blowing up the perimeter fence and freeing 266 inmates - almost everyone in the prison, authorities said. A soldier and a p...
-- 2021-09-11 16:39:04
A military helicopter crashed in northern Ivory Coast while on a reconnaissance mission near the border with Burkina Faso, killing all five crew members, the defence ministry said on Friday. An inves...
-- 2021-09-09 13:17:04
Morocco's liberal RNI party has won most seats in the country's parliamentary elections followed by another liberal party, PAM, while co-ruling moderate PJD Islamists suffered a crushing defeat, preli...
-- 2021-09-09 11:03:25
South Africa's largest private rhino breeder says he has kept the protected animals safe from poachers for four and a half years but cannot continue if he is not allowed to sell their horns. Rhino ho...
-- 2021-09-06 14:04:57
South Africa's jailed former president Jacob Zuma has been placed on medical parole because of his ill health, the government's correctional services department said on Sunday. Last month prison auth...
-- 2021-09-06 10:06:58
Tanzania suspended on Sunday another newspaper accused of false stories even though President Samia Suluhu Hassan had pledged to uphold media freedoms quashed by her predecessor. Raia Mwema, a leadin...
-- 2021-09-05 14:21:30
An Algerian court on Saturday ordered former Tunisian presidential candidate Nabil Karoui to be placed in custody on a charge of illegally crossing a border, a judicial source said. The court in the...
-- 2021-09-05 10:25:18
The Ethiopian military claims it has killed more than 5,600 members of the Tigray rebel forces it is fighting in the north of the country. A bloody conflict has been raging since November, bu...
-- 2021-09-04 10:08:43
The Democratic Republic of Congo will seek compensation from the owners of an Angolan diamond mine after a tailings dam leak polluted drinking water, causing 12 deaths and making thousands of people i...
-- 2021-09-01 21:32:59
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Shilpa Nagar (BSMSN) built on 30,000 acres of land at the converging points of three upazilas of Chattogram and Feni districts is all set to stand apart for attracting distinc...
-- 2021-08-23 21:04:12
Ethiopia has begun developing its own social media platform to rival Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp. However, the communications security agency of the country on Monday said it will not block the gl...
-- 2021-08-22 21:35:13
Haiti’s Civil Protection Agency said Sunday that the toll from this month’s magnitude 7.2 earthquake has grown to 2,207, with 344 people still missing. The previous figure had been 2,189...
REUTERS 2021-08-18 16:55:09
In Kenya's Maasai Mara National Reserve, the Toyota 4x4 Landcruiser of tour guide and driver Sylvester Mukenye glides silently past a herd of grazing elephants, then past a pride of lions lying in the...
REUTERS 2021-08-18 16:44:25
Unidentified armed men have killed 37 civilians, including 14 children, in an attack on a village in southwest Niger, according to internal security service memos and a local official. The attack occ...
REUTERS 2021-08-13 14:46:02
The green bus rumbling from Benghazi to Tripoli this week was the first to traverse the main highway between Libya's two biggest cities in years - the delayed result of a peace push that is running in...
REUTERS 2021-08-12 10:27:39
Exhausted Greek firefighters battled blazes for a ninth day on Wednesday amid sweltering temperatures that also helped stoke wildfires in Algeria, where at least 65 people died, and in southern Italy....
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