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
South Africa to exit war crimes court
South Africa yesterday announced that it would withdraw from the International Criminal Court, dealing a major blow to a
21 October 2016, 18:36 PM
25 feared dead in raid on migrant boat
Up to 25 people were missing, feared drowned, yesterday after men on a Libyan coastguard speedboat attacked a packed
21 October 2016, 18:23 PM
Eight dead in second Brazil prison riot
Eight inmates were killed and burned yesterday in a fresh prison riot in Brazil, police said, a day after clashes between
17 October 2016, 18:00 PM
Boko Haram frees 21 Chibok girls
Jihadist group Boko Haram has released 21 of the more than 200 kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls held since April
13 October 2016, 18:00 PM
World wildlife talks on trade ends
A global conference on wildlife trade wrapped up on Tuesday after adopting a slew of decisions to curb rampant
5 October 2016, 18:00 PM
Brazil votes in local polls
Brazilians furious at recession and corruption are expected to punish the long dominant Workers' Party in municipal
2 October 2016, 18:00 PM
ICC hands 9-yr jail term to Mali jihadist
War crimes judges yesterday sentenced a Malian jihadist to nine years in jail for destroying the fabled shrines of Timbuktu, in a
27 September 2016, 18:10 PM
Boko Haram leader Shekau resurfaces
The embattled leader of jihadist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, resurfaced in a video posted online yesterday,
25 September 2016, 18:00 PM
African elephants 'suffer worst decline in 25 yrs'
Africa's elephant population has suffered its worst drop in 25 years, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said yesterday, blaming the plummeting numbers on poaching.
25 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Brazil SC okays Temer probe
A Brazilian Supreme Court judge has authorized opening preliminary investigations into allegations that President
24 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Family releases shocking video
The wife of the African American man whose death has triggered days of unrest in Charlotte, North Carolina has
24 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Shabaab militants storm Kenya police post
Islamist gunmen launched an overnight attack on a police camp in Kenya's north-east, close to the Somali border, police and militants
22 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Brazil's Lula to stand trial for corruption
Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva must stand trial for corruption, a judge ruled Tuesday, after
21 September 2016, 18:00 PM
MINNESOTA ATTACKER WAS HIGH-ACHIEVING STUDENT
Dahir Ahmed Adan, the Somali American named as the perpetrator of the weekend stabbing rampage in Minnesota,
20 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Central Africa militia kills at least 20
Mainly-Muslim militia fighters in the Central African Republic have killed at least 20 people and wounded several more
18 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Somali general killed in suicide attack
A top Somalia general known for fighting the jihadist Shabaab group, was killed yesterday when a suicide bomber
18 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Tutu readmitted to hospital: family
South African retired archbishop and anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu, 84, was readmitted to hospital yesterday in
17 September 2016, 18:00 PM
38 Boko fighters killed in Niger
Thirty-eight Boko Haram Islamist fighters have been killed during military search operations carried out by Niger and
17 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Ex-Burkina PM charged with protester's murder
Luc Adolphe Tiao, the last prime minister of former Burkinabe president Blaise Compaore, has been detained and
17 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Islamists' attack kills 7 troops in Somali town
Somalia's Islamist militant group al Shabaab attacked a town in a region near Kenya's border, killing at least seven
17 September 2016, 18:00 PM