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
3 US soldiers killed in Niger ambush
Three US soldiers and one from another nation were killed when a joint US-Niger patrol was ambushed near the border with Mali in
5 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Three killed in Boko Haram raid in Nigeria
Boko Haram killed three people and set fire to scores of homes in a raid targeting vulnerable rural communities in northeast Nigeria, a
28 September 2017, 18:46 PM
Outcry saves 'world's lung'
The Brazilian government backed off a controversial proposal to authorize private companies to mine a sprawling
26 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Fistfight breaks out in Uganda parliament
Fistfights and chair-throwing break out in Uganda's parliament ahead of a debate on whether to grant long-serving President Yoweri Museveni another term in office, local television shows.
26 September 2017, 14:29 PM
Army deploys in Rio after favela shootings
Brazilian soldiers deployed by armored vehicle, truck and helicopter Friday to reinforce police after heavily armed drug
23 September 2017, 18:00 PM
UN gives top prize to Chibok girls negotiator
A Nigerian lawyer who helped secure the release of more than 100 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram was yesterday awarded one of
18 September 2017, 18:00 PM
PM threatens ban on opposition party
Cambodian premier Hun Sen threatened to dissolve the country's embattled opposition party yesterday, as the rival politicians protested
11 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Irma batters Caribbean islands
Monster Hurricane Irma slammed into the French Caribbean islands yesterday after making landfall in Barbuda, packing ferocious
6 September 2017, 18:46 PM
Boko Haram attacks kill 400 since April: Amnesty
A spurt in attacks by Boko Haram Islamists has claimed nearly 400 lives since April in Nigeria and Cameroon, double
5 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Caribbean braces for monster hurricane
Irma strengthened into an "extremely dangerous" Category Five hurricane yesterday, meteorologists warned,
5 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Odinga sets conditions after SC clears way for poll re-run
Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga yesterday sought the sacking of several poll commission officials and set
5 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Zimbabwe first lady Grace flies home
Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Mugabe flew home from South Africa yesterday, state media said, ending a week of
20 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Mugabe's birthday declared as holiday
Zimbabwe has declared President Robert Mugabe's birthday on February 21 a national holiday, a state daily reported yesteraday,
19 August 2017, 18:28 PM
Sierra Leone floods toll passes 400
More than 400 people have died in mudslides and flooding in Sierra Leone with 600 people still missing in the stricken
18 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Landslide kills 40 in DR Congo
A landslide has swept over a fishing village on the banks of a lake in the northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, killing 40 people, a
17 August 2017, 19:31 PM
Over one million S Sudan refugees in Uganda: UN
The number of South Sudanese who have fled to Uganda has hit one million, the UN said yesterday, with no end in sight to the war
17 August 2017, 19:12 PM
Odinga to knock SC over polls result
Kenya opposition leader Raila Odinga yesterday said he would go to court over last week's presidential election results, ignoring calls by
16 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Nigeria suicide blasts kill 28
A woman suicide bomber blew herself up and killed 28 others at a market in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday, two local officials said, in an
16 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Fears grow for 600 missing
Concerns shifted yesterday to the estimated 600 people still missing and thousands made homeless in Sierra Leone by deadly floods
16 August 2017, 18:00 PM
27 killed in Nigeria suicide bombing
A woman suicide bomber blew herself up and killed 27 others at a market in northeast Nigeria, two local officials say, in an attack bearing the hallmark of Boko Haram militants.
16 August 2017, 06:22 AM