-- 2017-12-27 12:00:00
Morocco and Niger signed 16 cooperation agreements to bolster bilateral ties, according to the Moroccan Foreign Ministry's website. These agreements were signed on Tuesday during the 4th Morocco-Nige...
-- 2017-12-26 12:26:40
Liberians are to choose a new president in a run-off vote between Vice-President Joseph Boakai and former international footballer George Weah. Weah, 51, won the first round, but did not secure the r...
-- 2017-12-26 12:00:00
A home belonging to Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila has been attacked and a policeman died in the incident, local lawmakers and UN sponsored radio said on Monday. Photos posted o...
-- 2017-12-25 09:57:13
Dubai airline Emirates will stop flying to Tunisia, it said on Sunday, after the North African country said it had banned flights from the United Emirates carrier. The announcement came two days afte...
-- 2017-12-25 02:40:34
South Sudan’s army clashed with rebels in an oil-producing region, both sides claimed, shattering a ceasefire hours after it came into effect. Both sides accused the other of starting the fight...
-- 2017-12-24 12:00:00
Zimbabwe's new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed retired army boss Constantino Chiwenga and veteran politician Kembo Mohadi as the ruling party’s vice presidents. The appointments pave...
-- 2017-12-23 11:28:17
A South Sudanese rebel group accused government troops of attacking their base only a day after the parties signed a ceasefire in a four-year war that has killed tens of thousands of people. The ceas...
-- 2017-12-22 12:00:00
South Sudan denied on Friday that a businessman sanctioned by the United States was an adviser to President Salva Kiir. It also said the decision to blacklist him was based on misleading information....
-- 2017-12-21 11:45:20
Uganda's parliament has approved a constitutional change that will allow the current president to run for an unprecedented sixth term in office. After three days of debate, MPs voted overwhelmingly t...
-- 2017-12-21 10:35:42
At least two people have been killed as a fierce fire broke out at a popular nightclub on the outskirts of Kenya's lakeside city of Kisumu, police say. The number of dead could rise as many people ar...
-- 2017-12-20 12:00:00
Zambia's police force has scrapped plans to employ eight Chinese nationals barely 24 hours after it unveiled the scheme, following a public outcry. The new reservists were commissioned in the capital...
-- 2017-12-19 10:51:12
South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) has selected Cyril Ramaphosa to succeed President Jacob Zuma as the party's leader for the next five year. The country's deputy president defeate...
-- 2017-12-19 10:00:49
Late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam, who is wanted for alleged crimes against humanity, is to stand in his country's next presidential election. Gaddafi family’s spokes...
-- 2017-12-18 01:59:27
At least 61 people have been killed in clashes between different ethnic groups in Ethiopia’s Oromiya region, officials said, the latest bout of violence to highlight increasing instability in a...
-- 2017-12-17 11:37:41
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta launched the upgraded Inland Container Depot (ICD) on the outskirts of Kenyan capital Nairobi to promote efficient transportation of bulk cargo from the port of Mombasa...
-- 2017-12-17 10:31:37
Libya’s coastal guard has rescued more than 250 illegal migrants trying to leave the North African country in small boats bound for Italy, officials said on Saturday. Libya’s western shor...
-- 2017-12-16 03:56:19
South Africa will take “necessary tough decisions” to stabilise public debt and grow the economy. Country's Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba made the announcement on Saturday. “We wi...
-- 2017-12-15 08:00:47
Residents say more than 10 illegal miners have been killed in northeast Nigeria's Mambilla region after clashing with police.Hammadu Bello said Friday that police tried to dislodge the miners in the M...
Reuters 2017-12-15 03:15:48
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) will announce current president Jacob Zuma’s successor as party leader on Sunday as it looks to conclude a bruising leadership battle...
-- 2017-12-14 12:00:00
A suicide bomber in police uniform blew himself up inside a police training camp in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Thursday, killing at least 13 police officers, officials said. Police spokesm...
-- 2017-12-14 11:58:32
A group of 11 militiamen in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been jailed for life for raping about 40 children, including at least one baby. The girls they raped between 2013 and 2016 were aged...
-- 2017-12-14 02:56:31
Two of Libya's eastern-based army soldiers were killed on Wednesday by a terrorist sniper in the eastern city of Benghazi, a military official said. "A terrorist sniper in Ekhrebish area (in central...
-- 2017-12-13 12:50:25
At least two people, including one civilian, have been killed in a suicide attack executed by terror group Boko Haram in the Cameroonian Far North Region, a local source told Xinhua. The attack occur...
-- 2017-12-13 01:49:03
Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has sacked four ministers, including those with the foreign affairs and energy portfolios, his office said in a statement late on Tuesday. No reasons were given for...
-- 2017-12-12 12:00:00
European governments are “complicit” in grave human rights violations in Libya through their support for authorities there that often work with people smugglers and torture refugees and mi...
FE Online Desk 2017-12-12 12:00:00
A Somali broadcast journalist was killed by a car bomb in front of his children, relatives said. The latest murder of the newsman marks the fifth of its kind in the war-torn country this year. The m...
-- 2017-12-11 03:08:44
Egypt will sign contracts with Moscow during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Cairo on Monday for the country’s first nuclear power plant, three senior sources told Reuters. Th...
-- 2017-12-11 02:40:42
The Islamic State (IS) militants kidnapped three civilians, including a father and his two children, in a Libyan town near former IS affiliates' stronghold Sirte, said a military source on Sunday. T...
-- 2017-12-11 01:31:47
Hundreds of women covered their mouths with tape on Saturday as they took to the streets in South Sudan's capital, Juba, to demand an end to their country's war and the suffering of its people, report...
-- 2017-12-10 01:37:22
Lecturers in Kenya’s public universities ended a strike on Saturday after reaching agreement with the government over pay and other issues, according to a statement from their union. They had g...
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