-- 2018-05-29 13:15:02
Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced on state TV that he would run for re-election in a poll scheduled for the end of July. Keita, 73, had been widely expected to run for a second...
-- 2018-05-28 11:24:21
Egypt’s state security prosecutors ordered that a prominent opposition leader, Hazim Abdelazim, be detained for 15 days pending investigation over joining an illegal organisation and publishing...
-- 2018-05-27 11:18:17
More than two dozen people have been killed in one of Cameroon’s Anglophone regions, local sources said on Saturday, although the exact circumstances of their deaths were not immediately clear....
-- 2018-05-26 19:51:58
At least 22 people, including three children, have been killed in a bus crash in northern Uganda, police said. The bus hit a tractor that was driving with no lights at night and then a truck, says a...
-- 2018-05-26 11:05:09
A court in Cameroon convicted seven activists from the country’s Anglophone minority of rebellion and acts of terrorism and gave them sentences ranging from 10 to 15 years, a defence lawyer said...
-- 2018-05-25 13:25:37
A boat tipped over in a river in northern Democratic Republic of Congo, drowning 49 people on board while about the same number survived the accident, a local official told a Congolese radio station....
-- 2018-05-25 12:56:02
At least seven people were killed and 10 wounded when a car bomb exploded on a busy street in the centre of the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Thursday night, a hospital medic said. The bomb expl...
-- 2018-05-24 16:43:29
Nigerian soldiers have raped women and girls who fled the insurgency by militant Islamist group Boko Haram, Amnesty International has said. Troops separated women from their husbands and raped them,...
-- 2018-05-23 14:41:56
A criminal gang in South Africa who kidnapped a teenage boy on Sunday are demanding a ransom in bitcoin cryptocurrency of nearly $120,000, police said. Katlego Marite, 13, was dragged into a car whil...
-- 2018-05-23 14:18:52
Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo has called for a criminal investigation into the head of the country’s football association, Kwesi Nyantakyi, for fraudulently using the President’s name....
-- 2018-05-22 14:39:14
Voters in Burundi have overwhelmingly approved a new constitution, the electoral commission said on Monday, ushering in changes that could let the president stay in power to 2034. An opposition coali...
-- 2018-05-21 11:31:18
A boat with two dozen migrants from West Africa was rescued off the coast of northern Brazil, officials from the state of Maranhão said on Sunday. A fishing boat came upon the drifting vessel...
-- 2018-05-20 12:42:05
Egypt’s state security prosecutor on Saturday ordered a prominent activist detained for 15 days for investigation on charges of involvement with a banned group and inciting and taking part in il...
-- 2018-05-20 10:59:18
Comoros has put former President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi under house arrest just days after he was questioned over his role in a scheme to sell citizenship that investigators say was riddled with...
-- 2018-05-18 21:21:01
The World Health Organization (WHO) is to hold an emergency meeting to discuss the risk of Ebola spreading from the Democratic Republic of Congo. A panel will decide on Friday whether to declare a &l...
-- 2018-05-18 15:01:09
At least 15 people were killed and six were raped during a referendum campaign in Burundi that could let President Pierre Nkurunziza hold power until 2034, Human Rights Watch said on Friday. Security...
-- 2018-05-18 12:51:57
Kenya’s public university lecturers have ended a strike over low pay after reaching an agreement with authorities, a union official said, allowing classes to resume after being suspended since...
-- 2018-05-18 11:59:23
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has decided to keep the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the Palestinian Gaza Strip open during the holy month of Ramadan. "I have made directions to keep th...
-- 2018-05-17 12:23:25
The Ebola outbreak in Congo has spread from the countryside into a city, prompting fears that the disease will be increasingly difficult to control. Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga confirmed a cas...
-- 2018-05-16 12:03:02
Rangers said they had stopped tourists entering Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park during investigations into the kidnapping of two Britons there last week. Gunmen ambushed Ro...
-- 2018-05-15 10:52:44
Egypt’s state security prosecutor ordered the detention of 20 people for 15 days pending an investigation into their roles in protests at Cairo metro stations last week after the government rais...
-- 2018-05-14 12:43:43
Libya will return to Egypt on Monday the bodies of 20 Egyptian Christians killed in 2015 by Islamic State in its former Libyan stronghold of Sirte, a Libyan security official said. The bodies were re...
-- 2018-05-13 12:38:02
At least 26 people were killed and seven others wounded in an attack in Burundi’s northwestern province of Cibitoke, less than a week before a constitutional referendum, a local administrator an...
-- 2018-05-12 10:57:39
A court in Congo Republic sentenced ex-army chief and opposition presidential candidate Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko to 20 years in prison on Friday on charges of violating state security and illegal poss...
-- 2018-05-11 20:44:15
The Kenyan dam which burst, killing more than 40 people, was illegal, the country's water authority said on Friday. The dam is one of a number on a sprawling farm near Solai, 190km (120 miles) from t...
-- 2018-05-11 09:48:40
The death toll from flooding caused by a burst dam wall in Kenya’s Rift Valley rose to 47 on Thursday and could go higher as more bodies are pulled from the mud, the local police chief said on T...
-- 2018-05-10 16:34:45
A dam burst in Kenya after weeks of torrential rain, unleashing a torrent of water that smashed into two villages killing at least 21 people and causing ‘huge destruction’, rescue services...
-- 2018-05-10 11:42:05
A woman has been stoned to death in Somalia after a court run by al-Shabab convicted her of having several husbands, the militant group says. Shukri Abdullahi Warsame was accused of marrying 11 times...
-- 2018-05-09 16:04:22
At least 17 people have died in an area of north-western Democratic Republic of Congo where health officials have now confirmed an outbreak of Ebola, the health ministry said on Tuesday. It is the ni...
-- 2018-05-08 10:08:41
Extremists carried out an attack on Kenyan soldiers’ patrol car in Somalia, leaving nine troops dead, says Kenya’s president. President Uhuru Kenyatta mourned the soldiers who were killed...
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