Africa Unused

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

Brazil's Lula faces corruption court

Brazil's former leftist president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, backed by hundreds of red-shirted supporters, was due in

10 May 2017, 18:00 PM

S Sudan child refugees top one million: UN

War has now forced more than one million children to flee South Sudan and uprooted 1.4 million others within the

8 May 2017, 18:00 PM

35 killed in school bus crash in Tanzania

Thirty-two schoolchildren, two teachers and a minibus driver where killed in Tanzania when their vehicle plunged into

7 May 2017, 18:00 PM

35 killed in Tanzania school minibus crash

Thirty-two schoolchildren, two teachers and a minibus driver are killed in Tanzania when their vehicle plunged into a roadside ravine in the northern tourist region of Arusha, a senior police official says.

7 May 2017, 07:15 AM

Five dead in suicide attack in Nigeria

Five people were killed in two suicide bombings in northeast Nigeria, police said yesterday, in the latest attacks blamed

5 May 2017, 18:00 PM

Forces mistakenly kill Somali minister

Somalia's minister of public works and reconstruction Abbas Abdullahi Siraji, 31, was killed in Mogadishu on Wednesday in what was

4 May 2017, 18:00 PM

Nigeria's leader urged to take medical leave

Nigerian civil society activists called on President Muhammadu Buhari to take long-term medical leave yesterday,

2 May 2017, 18:00 PM

Obama did everything to beat me

Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan has blamed Barack Obama for his 2015 presidential election defeat to Muhammadu

27 April 2017, 18:00 PM

20 people dead as boat capsizes in Senegal

At least 20 people, almost all women, were killed when a wooden boat capsized off Senegal's central coast in a delta region popular with

25 April 2017, 18:00 PM

Three nations chosen to test first vaccine

Ghana, Kenya and Malawi will pilot the world's first malaria vaccine from 2018, offering it for babies and children in high-risk areas as

24 April 2017, 18:00 PM

S Sudan violence amounts to 'genocide': UK

Targeted killings of specific ethnic groups in South Sudan's civil war amount to "genocide", according to Britain's International

13 April 2017, 18:36 PM

22 dead in blaze at Senegal retreat

A fire tore through makeshift straw shelters at a Muslim religious retreat in Senegal, killing at least 22 people and triggering a stampede,

13 April 2017, 18:00 PM

Graft probes target 9 Brazil ministers

Brazil's corruption crisis struck the heart of President Michel Temer's government Tuesday with the opening of probes

12 April 2017, 18:00 PM

Risk of mass starvation rapidly rising in Africa, Yemen, UN warns

The risk of mass starvation in four countries -- northeast Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen - -is rapidly rising due to drought and conflict, the UN refugee agency says.

11 April 2017, 11:07 AM

ANC backs Zuma in reshuffle dispute

South Africa's embattled President Jacob Zuma yesterday won the backing of the ruling ANC party, which rejected calls

5 April 2017, 18:00 PM

S Africa's top trade union tells Zuma to go

South Africa's powerful trade union federation Cosatu, a key coalition partner of the ruling ANC, yesterday called for embattled President

4 April 2017, 18:00 PM

Boko Haram kidnap 22 girls, women in Nigeria

Boko Haram Islamists have abducted 22 girls and women in two separate raids in northeast Nigeria, residents and

1 April 2017, 18:00 PM

'Real' Syria peace talks yet to start

The UN has said "incremental" progress was made during a fifth round of talks between Syria's warring parties, but