UN rights chief deplores abuse reports in Ethiopia's Tigray
21 June 2021, 14:33 PM
Africa & rest of the world
Ghana plants 5 million trees in single day to combat deforestation
12 June 2021, 09:42 AM
Climate action
‘This IS INSANE’: Africa desperately short of COVID vaccine
9 June 2021, 07:44 AM
Coronavirus
Nigeria suspended Twitter days after president's post removed
5 June 2021, 06:52 AM
Careers
African Union suspends Mali after military coup and threatens sanctions
2 June 2021, 13:29 PM
Africa & rest of the world
Mali president and prime minister freed by military after resigning
27 May 2021, 13:39 PM
Africa & rest of the world
Suspected ADF militants kill 22 with knives, machetes in eastern Congo
26 May 2021, 19:54 PM
Africa & rest of the world
Mali's president and prime minister resign following military takeover
26 May 2021, 13:55 PM
Africa & rest of the world
Military detain Mali's president, prime minister and defence minister
25 May 2021, 02:11 AM
Africa & rest of the world
Court allows Suez Canal to keep holding container ship that blocked traffic
23 May 2021, 13:17 PM
Africa & rest of the world
Congo fire destroys voting machines
A fire overnight at a warehouse in Congo's capital destroyed thousands of voting machines and ballot boxes that were due to be used in
13 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Nigeria parties sign pact for peaceful polls
The main challenger to President Muhammadu Buhari in next year's presidential poll has signed a deal committing to peaceful elections a day after missing the initial ceremony in the capital.
13 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Twelve killed in foiled Brazil bank assaults
Twelve people -- including five hostages -- were killed in northeast Brazil on Friday after police foiled a gang of armed robbers staging
8 December 2018, 18:00 PM
'It's the real me'
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday quashed a rumour stemming from his ill health that he had died and been replaced by a
3 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Nigeria's Buhari denies dying and being replaced by lookalike
Nigeria's President Buhari denies claims that he had died and been replaced by a Sudanese impostor, breaking his silence on a rumour that has circulated on social media for months.
3 December 2018, 09:20 AM
Boko Haram kills 3 soldiers in Nigeria
Boko Haram jihadists have killed three soldiers in an attack on a military base in northeast Nigeria's Borno state near Lake Chad, military
29 November 2018, 18:00 PM
30 killed, 60 more feared drowned
Thirty people drowned and more than 60 were feared dead after a pleasure boat sank in Lake Victoria, Ugandan police said yesterday, in the latest such incident on Africa's largest body of water.
25 November 2018, 18:00 PM
Boko Haram kidnaps 50 loggers in Nigeria
Boko Haram jihadists abducted around 50 loggers in northeastern Nigerian close to the border with Cameroon, sources said Thursday. The hostages are mostly from a camp for people displaced by jihadist violence .
23 November 2018, 18:00 PM
Gunmen kidnap Italian volunteer, shoot children near Kenya's coast
Gunmen kidnap an Italian volunteer and shoot and wound four people in Kenya in an attack that has sparked fears of an upsurge in activity by militant Islamists.
21 November 2018, 15:38 PM
Militants kill 16; dozens missing
Boko Haram jihadists have killed at least 16 farmers and left dozens missing in the latest attacks in restive northeast Nigeria's Borno
14 November 2018, 18:00 PM
Death toll tops 200 in DR Congo
The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to more than 200, the health ministry said on Saturday.
11 November 2018, 18:00 PM
Death toll Hits 41
The death toll from a string of car bombings near a popular hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu has jumped to at least 41, police said yesterday.
10 November 2018, 18:00 PM
Suicide car bombers kill 17 in Somalia
Suicide attackers set off two car bombs at a hotel near the headquarters of Somalia's Criminal Investigations Department in Mogadishu yesterday, killing at least 17 people, police said.
9 November 2018, 18:00 PM
79 abducted pupils freed in Cameroon
Seventy-nine school pupils abducted by gunmen this week in a troubled English-speaking region of Cameroon have been freed, the country's communications minister told AFP yesterday.
7 November 2018, 18:00 PM
Separatists kidnap 79 pupils in Cameroon
Seventy-nine school students were kidnapped yesterday in an English-speaking region of Cameroon where separatists are fighting an armed campaign for independence, a government source said.
5 November 2018, 18:00 PM
Boko Haram attacks kill 12 in Nigeria
At least 12 civilians were killed in multiple Boko Haram jihadist attacks targeting two villages and a camp for those displaced by the
1 November 2018, 18:00 PM
Brazil to vote in presidential run-off
Brazil elects its next president today in a run-off that looks all but guaranteed for far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro, an ex-army captain
27 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Communal violence kills 55 in Nigeria
Communal violence in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna over the last few days has killed 55 people, the local police commissioner said yesterday.
21 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Boko Haram kill 12 farmers in Nigeria
Boko Haram jihadists yesterday hacked 12 farmers to death as they worked on their fields in the volatile northeastern Nigerian state of
20 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Suicide blasts kill 20 in Somalia
The death toll has risen to 20 people yesterday following two suspected suicide bombers that struck in the southern Somali city of Baidoa
14 October 2018, 18:00 PM