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
Grace Mugabe turns self in to S Africa police
Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Mugabe handed herself over to South African police and was due in court yesterday, officials said, after
15 August 2017, 18:14 PM
270 bodies recovered from Sierra Leone mudslide
Rescue workers have recovered 270 bodies so far from a mudslide in the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, the mayor says.
15 August 2017, 09:19 AM
2 wounded as gunmen attack UN base in Mali
Gunmen attacked a UN base in central Mali yesterday, wounding a UN peacekeeper and a Malian soldier. "The suspected jihadists fired on
14 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Hunger crisis grips Congo
Hunger in the Democratic Republic of Congo has soared in the last year, leaving 7.7 million people in urgent need of food aid and
14 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Kenya's defiant Odinga vows not to back down
Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga yesterday vowed not to back down over an election he claims was stolen from
13 August 2017, 18:00 PM
11 killed as 'riots' flare
Kenyan police killed at least 11 people in a crackdown on protests as anger at the re-election of President Uhuru
12 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Declare Odinga president
Kenya's main opposition coalition yesterday demanded that its candidate Raila Odinga be declared president,
10 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Zimbabwe plans $1b 'Mugabe University'
Cash-strapped Zimbabwe yesterday announced that it plans to build a $1 billion university to honour Robert Mugabe,
9 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Deadly protests amid claim of vote rigging
Two protesters were shot dead by police in the Kenyan capital yesterday as unrest broke out after opposition claims of massive rigging in
9 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Boko Haram kill 31 fishermen in Nigeria
At least 31 fishermen have been killed by Boko Haram jihadists in two separate attacks on islands in Lake Chad in northeastern Nigeria.
8 August 2017, 18:00 PM
South Africa leader Zuma survives
South African President Jacob Zuma yesterday survived a parliamentary vote of no confidence, as ruling ANC lawmakers stuck by their
8 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Jittery Kenyans vote in key polls
Kenyans queued in large numbers to vote yesterday in an electoral showdown between the country's foremost political dynasties, as
8 August 2017, 18:00 PM
12 killed in Nigeria church shooting
Gunmen stormed a Catholic church in a town in southeast Nigeria early yesterday, killing 12 worshippers, hospital sources and witnesses said.
6 August 2017, 18:00 PM
S African held hostage by Qaeda in Mali freed
A South African man snatched from his hotel and held hostage by Al-Qaeda in Mali since 2011 has been freed, his country's foreign
3 August 2017, 18:39 PM
Five dead, 10 injured in Somalia blast
At least five people were killed and ten wounded in Somalia's capital Mogadishu yesterday when a car bomb detonated on a busy road,
30 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Not going anywhere, not dying: Mugabe
Zimbabwe's 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe, declaring "I am not dying," sought Saturday to brush aside growing concerns about
30 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Eight killed in Nigeria suicide bombing
Eight people were killed yesterday when a female suicide bomber detonated her explosives at a mosque in northeast Nigeria. The blast
17 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Mandela ambulance caught fire: his doctor
An ambulance carrying South Africa's first democratically elected president Nelson Mandela caught fire as it was rushing him to hospital,
17 July 2017, 18:00 PM
8 killed in football stadium crush
Eight people were killed during Senegal's football league cup final in Dakar on Saturday, the sports minister told AFP, as a wall collapsed onto clashing supporters triggering a panicked stampede.
16 July 2017, 18:00 PM
14 dead in twin Cameroon blasts
Two bombers blew themselves up in northeastern Cameroon killing 14 people and injuring 30 people in an attack likely staged by Boko
13 July 2017, 18:39 PM