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
46 killed in Nigeria in March ethnic clashes
At least 46 people were killed and almost 100 others wounded in clashes between rival ethnic groups in southwest Nigeria earlier this
23 March 2017, 18:00 PM
ICC jails ex-Congo VP for bribing witnesses
Judges yesterday sentenced former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba to a year in jail and fined him 300,000
22 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Suicide blasts rock Nigeria migrant camp
At least four suicide bomb blasts rocked a camp for migrants fleeing Boko Haram insurgents in restive northeastern
22 March 2017, 18:00 PM
20 die in freak tree accident in Ghana
Twenty students died after trees fell on them while swimming in a river during a storm in Ghana, emergency officials
20 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Plane crash-lands in South Sudan
A passenger jet carrying 45 people crash-landed in South Sudan's northwestern city of Wau yesterday, leaving at
20 March 2017, 18:00 PM
110-minister govt!
Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo on Friday defended his controversial decision to appoint a 110-minister government, calling it a
18 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Namibia claims $30b
Namibia is to launch a 30-billion-dollar (28-billion-euro) lawsuit against Germany over genocide committed during colonial rule,
18 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Somali pirates release hijacked oil tanker
Somali pirates on Thursday handed over an oil tanker and eight Sri Lankan hostages captured just days ago, the Oceans Beyond Piracy
17 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Bus in Haiti flees accident, kills 38
A bus speeding away from a hit-and-run accident plowed into dozens of street musicians in northern Haiti on Sunday, killing 38 people,
13 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Car bomb kills 13 in Somali capital: report
A car bomb near a hotel on a busy street in the Somali capital killed at least 13 people yesterday, police and the emergency medical
13 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Which child to feed?
Somali mothers are facing an agonising choice over how to divide their shrinking food supply among hungry
8 March 2017, 18:00 PM
110 dead in last 48 hours: PM
Some 110 people have died in southern Somalia in the last two days from famine and diarrhoea resulting from a
5 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Mugabe turns 93
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe yesterday celebrated his 93rd birthday with a lavish party attended by thousands of loyalists
25 February 2017, 18:00 PM
South African police disperse protesters
South African police fired tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets to disperse rival marches by hundreds of protesters in Pretoria
24 February 2017, 18:00 PM
South Africa struggles to quell violence
The South African government yesterday called for calm after a wave of xenophobic violence in which dozens of shops and houses owned
23 February 2017, 18:18 PM
New Somali prime minister named
Hassan Ali Kheyre, a former aid worker and oil executive, was named prime minister of Somalia yesterday by the country's new President
23 February 2017, 18:08 PM
S African court slaps down bid to leave ICC
A South African court yesterday ordered the government to withdraw its "unconstitutional" bid to pull out of the International Criminal
22 February 2017, 18:00 PM
1.4m children face famine in four countries: Unicef
Nearly 1.4 million children are at "imminent risk" of death in famines in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, the UN children's
21 February 2017, 18:09 PM
Famine declared in S Sudan
South Sudan yesterday declared famine in some parts of the country, with more than three years of war leaving nearly five million
20 February 2017, 18:16 PM
Zimbabwe's Mugabe rules out retirement
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who turns 93 on Tuesday, has no plans to give up power, saying he has no
19 February 2017, 18:00 PM