-- 2017-10-29 12:00:00
An Islamist attack on a hotel in the Somali capital ended on Sunday after 25 people had been killed in a near 12-hour siege, police said, underlining the insurgents’ ability to carry out deadly...
-- 2017-10-28 11:33:18
Kenya’s opposition dominated areas were calmer on Saturday, a day after voting was postponed in four restive counties because of clashes between police and protesters. It was not clear when the...
Reuters 2017-10-28 03:19:09
Across Libya’s capital residents have started drilling through pavements to access wells in a desperate search for water after the taps ran dry in a new low for living conditions. After years o...
-- 2017-10-27 07:10:46
Burundi has become the first country to pull out from the International Criminal Court on Friday. However, according to officials, the court's prosecutor will move ahead with an examination of the Ea...
Reuters 2017-10-26 11:10:58
Kenyans vote on Thursday in a presidential election re-run overshadowed by an opposition boycott that will almost certainly hand victory to President Uhuru Kenyatta, but with a mandate compromised by...
BBC 2017-10-25 12:00:00
Kenya's Supreme Court is to hold a last-minute hearing to decide whether the re-run of the presidential election can go ahead. The court will hear an urgent petition by human rights activists arguing...
BBC 2017-10-24 11:23:46
African elephant poaching declined for a fifth year in a row in 2016, but ivory seizers around the world hit record levels, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) report s...
BBC 2017-10-23 12:30:33
The World Health Organization has revoked the appointment of Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador following a widespread outcry. "I have listened carefully to all who have expressed thei...
BBC 2017-10-22 12:00:00
The new head of the World Health Organization (WHO) is rethinking a plan to appoint Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus's original proposal spar...
Reuters 2017-10-22 11:39:28
Gunmen on pick-up trucks and motorcycles coming from Mali killed 13 gendarmes and wounded five more in an attack on their base in western Niger, security sources said on Saturday. The village is a fe...
BBC 2017-10-21 10:04:54
The death toll from last Saturday's huge truck bombing in the Somali capital Mogadishu has risen to 358, the information minister says. Some 56 people are also still missing, Abdirahman Osman says....
-- 2017-10-21 05:58:45
At least 55 policemen, including 20 officers and 34 conscripts, were killed in a shootout during a raid on a militant hideout near in Cairo of Egypt. The officials said Saturday that the exchange of...
BBC 2017-10-19 11:08:44
The new instalment of Nelson Mandela's autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, has been released in Johannesburg. Dare Not Linger tackles his five years as South Africa's president after the collapse of...
Reuters 2017-10-18 12:00:00
Two men were injured in a drive-by shooting at South Africa’s Cape Town International Airport, police said on Wednesday. Operations at the airport, which is the second busiest in the country an...
AP 2017-10-18 10:22:25
A Kenyan electoral commissioner has announced her resignation and says the presidential vote just eight days away cannot credibly proceed as planned. Roselyne Akombe spoke Wednesday from New York but...
-- 2017-10-17 12:00:00
The Egyptian capital Cairo has been described as the ‘most dangerous’ megacity for women. The finding comes from the first international poll on how women fare in cities with over 10 mill...
AP 2017-10-16 12:00:00
The most powerful bomb blast ever witnessed in Somalia's capital killed 276 people with around 300 others injured, the country's information minister said early Monday, making it the deadliest single...
-- 2017-10-15 12:00:00
A massive bomb attack in a busy area of the Somali capital Mogadishu has killed at least 230 people, officials say, reports BBC. Dozens more were wounded when a lorry packed with explosives detonated...
Reuters 2017-10-15 03:20:06
The death toll from two bomb attacks that tore through busy junctions in the heart of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu has risen to 85, making it one of the deadliest attacks in the country since Isl...
-- 2017-10-14 12:00:00
At least four people were killed on Saturday when a propeller-engine cargo plane crashed into the sea near the international airport in Ivory Coast’s main city Abidjan, a Reuters witness said....
-- 2017-10-14 07:12:55
At least five students and a security guard have been shot and killed in an attack at a secondary school in northern Kenya. The attack was allegedly led by a former student who had been suspended, th...
-- 2017-10-14 03:33:49
Police in Kenya shot and killed two opposition protesters, who allegedly threw rocks at a police station, while police used tear gas on rallies in the capital ahead of the new presidential election th...
-- 2017-10-13 12:00:00
Partial results from Liberia's presidential election show former football star George Weah has taken an early lead. Figures from the National Elections Commission (NEC) put Weah ahead in 11 out of 15...
BBC 2017-10-12 12:00:00
Moored ships were blown away as a "supercell thunderstorm" swept through South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal region, killing at least 11 people. The dead include a child swept away by rising waters and two...
BBC 2017-10-11 12:00:00
At least five people have been killed in southern Malawi after they were accused of behaving like vampires. The UN says it has pulled staff out of two districts as the vampire scare sweeps across the...
-- 2017-10-10 09:18:04
Kenyan main opposition leader Raila Odinga will not participate in October's presidential election re-run. Odinga said his withdrawal would give the electoral commission enough time to i...
Xinhua 2017-10-10 03:02:50
An Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD) disease in Ethiopia's second largest city Dire Dawa, 446 kms east of Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, has infected 127 people in September, an Ethiopian official said on...
Reuters 2017-10-09 12:00:00
Sudan will extend a unilateral ceasefire with rebels until the end of December, state news agency SUNA reported on Sunday, just days after the United States lifted 20-year-old sanctions tied to progre...
-- 2017-10-09 05:33:34
Tunisia's health minister has died of a heart attack after taking part in a charity marathon to help fight cancer. Slim Chaker, 56, fell ill after running some 500 metres, and died in a military hosp...
Xinhua 2017-10-08 01:02:48
Two people were confirmed dead after an explosion at a gas station Saturday evening in the north of Ghana's capital city, a local official told Xinhua. The explosion, which occurred around 7:30 p.m....
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