-- 2017-11-20 12:00:00
Fifteen people were killed and five more injured when a stampede broke out in a southwestern Moroccan town on Sunday as food aid was being distributed in a market, the Interior Ministry said. A hospi...
-- 2017-11-20 07:20:39
Zimbabwe’s ruling party now discussing the process to impeach President Robert Mugabe on Monday after expiring the deadline to end his nearly four decades in power by resigning. ZANU-PF party...
-- 2017-11-19 12:00:00
Zimbabwe’s ruling party gave Robert Mugabe less than 24 hours to quit as the head of state, otherwise the 93-year-old will face impeachment. The ZANU-PF party made the decision as an attempt to...
Reuters 2017-11-19 10:18:33
The leaders of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party will meet on Sunday to approve the dismissal of President Robert Mugabe, the only leader the southern African nation has known since independence 3...
-- 2017-11-19 06:42:33
Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party has expelled country's President Robert Mugabe as the leader of the party on Sunday. The party replaced Mugabe by his former deputy Emmerson Mnangagwa. His wife Grace...
-- 2017-11-18 12:00:00
Five people have been killed in Kenya's capital Nairobi as police broke up crowds of opposition supporters. At least two of the victims were shot dead, reports said, while others may have been stoned...
-- 2017-11-18 07:45:59
Tens of thousands of Zimbabweans took to the streets of Harare on Saturday to demand the resignation of President Robert Mugabe. They flooded the streets of the capital, singing, dancing and hugging...
Reuters 2017-11-17 12:53:07
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s fate hung in the balance on Friday as he apparently resisted efforts to make him step down following a seizure of power by the army, until this week a key pi...
Reuters 2017-11-17 12:00:00
Leaders of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's party are making plans to force him from office if the 93-year-old leader resists pressure from the army to quit, a senior party source said on Friday....
-- 2017-11-17 08:59:43
Cameroon's main parliament building in its capital Yaoundé was badly damaged by fire which ripped through four floors. Firefighters managed to put out the blaze before it could reach the parli...
-- 2017-11-17 05:54:01
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has appeared in first public appearance since a military seizure of power in the country. Mugabe was present at a university graduation ceremony in Harare on Friday....
-- 2017-11-16 11:00:20
Four suicide bombers detonated in Nigeria's Borno state capital and killed 14 people while wounding another 29, police said Wednesday, in one of the largest such attacks in the city in years. The dea...
-- 2017-11-15 12:00:00
Zimbabwe’s military seized power early on Wednesday targeting “criminals” around President Robert Mugabe but gave assurances on national television that the 93-year-old leader and hi...
-- 2017-11-15 10:50:09
Soldiers deployed across the Zimbabwe capital Harare and seized the state broadcaster on Wednesday after 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe’s ruling ZANU-PF party accused the head of the milita...
-- 2017-11-14 12:00:00
Zimbabwe’s top general warned on Monday that the military would not hesitate to step in to end purges against former liberation war fighters in President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party after...
-- 2017-11-13 10:41:55
At least 33 people were killed in a train crash at Buyofwe in the Lualaba province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, UN radio station Okapi reports. Radio Okapi said the train carrying flammable m...
-- 2017-11-12 11:17:24
Egyptian military jets destroyed 10 vehicles carrying weapons, ammunition and smuggled goods near the country’s western desert border with Libya, the army said on Saturday. Egypt’s porou...
-- 2017-11-11 10:18:52
Eighteen militiamen are on trial in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo on charges of raping 46 children. Some of the victims from the village of Kavumu were just 18 months old. The men all...
-- 2017-11-09 10:12:51
At least six children have been killed and 25 others injured in an explosion at a primary school in Kagera region near the border with Burundi in north-west Tanzania, witnesses say. The pupils were p...
-- 2017-11-08 12:49:11
The Security Council Tuesday adopted a resolution to condemn the acts of piracy and armed robbery at sea off the coast of Somalia and to call for a comprehensive response to prevent and suppress such...
-- 2017-11-07 11:56:29
Zimbabwe's Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been removed from his post, the country's government has announced. Mr Mnangagwa, 75, had displayed "traits of disloyalty", Information Minister Simon...
-- 2017-11-07 11:28:41
At least five migrants died and many others feared missing when a rubber boat, carrying about 140 people, overturned close to the border between Libyan and international waters on Monday, Libyan coast...
-- 2017-11-06 12:00:00
Clashes between Congolese troops and supporters of a renegade colonel in Congo’s eastern city of Bukavu killed seven people on Sunday before he surrendered and turned himself in to UN peacekeepe...
-- 2017-11-06 12:00:00
Two buses in Senegal collided – thereby killing at least 25 people and injuring at least a dozen, including many who were heading to an annual pilgrimage. Senegal radio station Rfm reported Mon...
-- 2017-11-05 12:24:55
The Libyan navy rescued 200 illegal immigrants from a rubber boat that crashed into the western Libyan shores on Saturday, said a navy official. The rescued migrants include women who are of African...
BBC 2017-11-04 10:22:20
Police in Zimbabwe charged an American woman over a tweet that appeared to insult President Robert Mugabe, her lawyer has said. Martha O'Donovan, 25, is accused of referring to Mr Mugabe as "selfish...
-- 2017-11-02 02:12:09
Kenyan lecturers in public universities have launched a strike to protest against what they call the government’s continued failure to implement a March deal to boost salaries and housing allowa...
BBC 2017-11-01 01:01:38
Russia has signed a deal to build two nuclear power plants in Nigeria, as Africa's largest economy seeks to end its energy crisis. Russian state-owned company Rosatom will build one in the south, the...
Reuters 2017-10-31 12:00:00
US forces have captured a militant who is believed to have played a role in a 2012 attack on a US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, that killed US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other...
Xinhua 2017-10-30 12:26:10
UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Sunday called for an immediate investigation into the killing of 36 people near the eastern city of Benghazi. "UNSMIL calls for immediate investigation to brin...
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