Nairobi, July 29, 2019-- The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned for the safety of investigative reporter Erick Kabendera who was forcefully removed f...
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian police are seeking help from the general public to arrest members of a banned Shi’ite Muslim group whose protests were declared illeg...
VOA's Lisa Schlein contributed to this report. Goma is home to more than a million people and lies directly on Congo's border with Rwanda, where tens of thousan...
Christo Bothma from Potchefstroom in North West, who disappeared in West Africa 10 months ago, has died, according to information received by Gift of the Givers...
Officials with the Côte d’Ivoire, or Ivory Coast Ministry of Health report a yellow fever outbreak. According to a press release today (computer translated), Dr...
Uber and Bolt (previously Taxify) drivers should be careful when responding to clients in Nyanga, Cape Town, following hijackings and robberies, sometimes with ...
In a follow-up on the measles epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), health ministry officials report 120,635 total cases through July 7. 2,162...
The embittered post was shared on Sunday afternoon, just a day after a Ukranian businessman was stabbed to death while hiking a trail in Hout Bay. His belonging...
State television in Nigeria says attacks by Boko Haram militants in the northeastern state of Borno have left at least 65 people dead....
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A 44-year-old tourist from Ukraine has been confirmed dead after he was attacked while hiking in the Table Mountain National Park. It’s understood the man was i...
GOMA, Congo (Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped a South African and one Zimbabwean worker at Banro Corp’s gold mine in the east Congolese province of Maniema on Sunday...
OUAGADOUGOU - Armed men described as jihadists raided a village in Burkina Faso's restive north, killing 15 people, plundering and burning shops and motorbikes,...
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A rare female suicide bomber used in the deadly al-Shabab attack in the office of Mogadishu's mayor was aiming for the American who is the new U.N. envoy to Som...
At least eight people, including a journalist, have been killed in recent weeks as the Islamic Movement of Nigeria continues to protest in multiple cities acros...
LAGOS (Reuters) - International aid agency Action Against Hunger said on Thursday that a staff member and five others kidnapped in Nigeria last week had appeare...
The coast of West Africa is one of the world's most notorious areas for piracy and kidnapping. And attacks in the area continue to rise year-on-year. To try to ...
A suicide bomber walked into the office of Mogadishu's mayor and detonated explosives strapped to his waist, killing six people and badly wounding the mayor min...
A video shared by Otto Orondaam, an executive director at a nonprofit organization that serves underserved communities in Africa, shows the anonymous individual...
Swarms of motorcycle taxis overloaded with passengers and goods weave their way through traffic in the eastern Congolese city of Butembo....
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GOMA, Congo (Reuters) - Islamist rebels killed twelve people in two attacks in an area of east Congo that is struggling to contain an Ebola epidemic, local auth...
A journalist covering the clashes between Nigerian security forces and supporters of a Shia group in Abuja has been confirmed dead, amid reports the death toll ...
