Two soldiers were killed by suspected kidnappers at a road construction site in Ukanafun council area of Akwa Ibom. An expatriate, working with Al Madal Constru...
A Naval Warrant Officer, Felix Aknabi, has been shot dead by suspected herdsmen, who allegedly kidnapped 18 passengers traveling from Akwa-Ibom State to Lagos e...
HAWASSA, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Activists in Ethiopia were set to declare a new region for their Sidama ethnic group on Thursday in defiance of the central govern...
Gauteng police are on the hunt for a suspect who snatched a cellphone from an Australian rugby player in Sandton on Saturday night....
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Theft of anti-malarial drugs is a huge problem in Uganda, causing a shortage of medication that is sorely needed to treat the disease. Counterfeit drugs often f...
Ten Turkish sailors have been taken hostage by armed pirates off the coast of Nigeria early on Tuesday, according to shipping company Kadioglu Denizcilik and Tu...
It appeared to be a done deal. Nigeria's government under President Muhammadu Buhari had announced that they would be introducing the so-called Ruga settlements...
In Summary The disease has left one person dead and others hospitalised. County Director of Health Dickens Onyango also reported that four people who were admit...
Beni, Congo -- The Congolese health ministry confirmed an Ebola case in Goma late Sunday, marking the first time the virus has reached the city of more than 2 m...
An attack in Somalia's port city of Kismayo over the weekend killed 26 people, including the prominent Canadian-Somali journalist Hodan Nalayeh, who returned to...
Authorities in South Africa have deployed the army to townships in the port city of Cape Town to deal with an upsurge of gang violence. Police Minister Bheki Ce...
The militant group stormed the hotel overnight after targeting it with a car bomb. Two journalists and local politicians are believed to be among the dead....
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The health ministry of Democratic Republic of Congo said Monday two community health workers engaged in Ebola prevention have been killed in the eastern North K...
On June 28, armed separatists beat and kidnapped John Fru Ndi, a well-known Cameroonian politician considered by some as one of the country’s old guard of polit...
Gunmen have abducted nine travellers allegedly including four serving corp members on board a commercial bus in Rivers state. The mini bus with registration num...
ABUJA (Reuters) - Police fired teargas at a protesting Shi’ite group in Nigeria’s capital city Abuja, a Reuters witness saw on Thursday. Hundreds gathered to de...
KHARTOUM - Sudan's ruling military council has foiled a coup attempt, a top general announced on state television Thursday, saying that 12 officers and four sol...
After over 13 months in captivity, on 29 August 2014, one of the MSF team abducted in Kamango was able to take advantage of the Congolese army’s military operat...
Parts of Africa are grappling with an outbreak of measles and the preventable disease is making a comeback because many people here aren't getting vaccinated. T...
The city's mayor said criminals riding motorbikes often robbed people. Takele Uma said businesses would be exempt, but delivery companies say they have been aff...
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria’s National Assembly was on lockdown on Tuesday afternoon after a shooting outside, a Reuters witness said. It was not immediately clea...
An outbreak of dengue fever has been ongoing in Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) since January 2019, with the upscale urban districts of Abidjan city being the most ...
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