Uganda has stopped nationwide distribution of a United Nations food supplement called Super Cereal after two people died and more than 90 others came down with ...
This weekend, residents of Comoros will elect a new president. There is potential for the vote to prompt unrest and disruption, and the US Embassy has prohibite...
MAPUTO, Mozambique — Rescue workers struggled Tuesday to reach areas devastated by a huge cyclone in Mozambique, as heavy rains swelled rivers and further isola...
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Gunmen in Ethiopia have shot and killed five workers from a mining company in the restive west on Tuesday, residents said, with a TV station...
Five members of the security forces were killed in roadside bomb attacks in eastern Burkina Faso at the weekend, officials said on Monday. Late Sunday, three so...
A 63-year-old man from the UK died while scuba diving in Simon's Town in the Western Cape, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said on Sunday....
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At least 13 civilians have died in fresh attacks in Mozambique's volatile northern Cabo Delgado province where militants have terrorised villagers in remote com...
Eight days after her kidnapping, 80-year-old Hajiya Maistiyari, mother of Binta, the wife of Katsina State Governor Aminu Masari, has been released by her abduc...
State governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai confirms attack was carried out by ‘criminal elements’....
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More than 150 people were killed and hundreds more were missing Sunday after Cyclone Idai swept through southeastern Africa, with the Mozambican city of Beira h...
At least 16 soldiers have been killed in a raid on an army camp in central Mali's Mopti region two local councillors in the area where the attack happened said....
Police in Nairobi have arrested a man who had kidnapped an employee of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). Shaban Wangatia, 37, was accused of loc...
Last week, WWF launched an inquiry into claims that it has funded paramilitary guards accused of torturing, sexually assaulting and murdering people in Africa a...
Armed pirates have kidnapped five crewmembers from a vessel off Nigeria and shot dead a member of the Nigerian Navy who was guarding the ship. The attack happen...
Tropical Cyclone Idai has already killed 111 people in Mozambique and Malawi - and has yet to make landfall. Severe flooding has led to the Government of Malawi...
At least 40 others were wounded, Gof-Gadud village official Hassan Bayow told the local radio on Wednesday, according to the dpa news agency. Bayow said fighter...
KANO (Reuters) - Gunmen in Nigeria abducted a Lebanese construction worker and killed another man in the northern city of Kano on Tuesday morning, a police offi...
(Reuters) - British authorities were the latest to ban or ground the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft on Tuesday in the aftermath of the fatal crash of a plane of the ...
Tropical Cyclone Idai has developed in strength and is forecast to make landfall by Saturday, March 16. "When it makes landfall, it weakens slightly but the imp...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Law students, tourists, writers, academics and a large number of aid workers and employees of the United Nations were among those who ...
The North West Regional Delegate for Environment and Nature Protection was kidnapped last week in Bamenda has finally been released, sources have said. Henry A...
GENEVA — A deadly form of plague has broken out on Uganda's border with Democratic Republic of Congo and several people are thought to have died of the disease,...
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