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
19 die as overloaded canoe capsizes in Mali
Nineteen people died when an overloaded canoe capsized in Mali, local authorities said yesterday, in the second major river accident in the poor west African
3 September 2015, 18:02 PM
'50 killed' in Shebab attack on AU base
At least 50 African Union soldiers are believed to have been killed and another 50 are missing after Shebab militants overran a military camp in southern
2 September 2015, 18:00 PM
Shebab attack African Union base in Somalia
Somalia's al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab militants rammed a suicide car bomb into an African Union base yesterday before storming the compound, with witnesses
1 September 2015, 18:00 PM
The dead babies off the Libyan coast
Do not look closely at the photographs (not given with the article due to policy issues). Do not look at them at all. They will, in an
1 September 2015, 18:00 PM
Somalia aid crisis 'critical': UN
War-torn Somalia remains in a "critical" state four years after a devastating famine, the UN warned yesterday, noting a sharp rise in those needing food aid.
31 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Gunmen kidnap journalist in Nigeria
Gunmen in Nigeria's southern oil city Port Harcourt have kidnapped a senior journalist working for a private national newspaper, police and the daily
31 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Boko Haram kills 80 in Nigeria
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen on horseback shot dead nearly 80 people in separate attacks on three villages in Nigeria's restive northeast at the weekend, a vigilante and residents said yesterday.
31 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Child bomber kills six in Nigeria
A child bomber killed six people yesterday outside a bus station in the heartland of the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency in northeastern Nigeria.
25 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Obama holds talks on counterterrorism
President Barack Obama huddled with Ethiopia's leaders yesterday for talks on counterterrorism, human rights and regional security
27 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Obama ends Kenya visit with tough message
US President Barack Obama yesterday ended a landmark visit to Kenya, urging the east African nation and birthplace of his father to
26 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Deadly 'Boko Haram attacks' target Chad, Nigeria
At least 14 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack at a crowded market in Chad's capital yesterday just days after Boko Haram
11 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis: Zaria bomb attack 'kills 20'
20 people die in a bomb attack in north-western Nigeria's Zaria city, state governor Nasir El-Rufa'i says.
7 July 2015, 10:59 AM
New suspected Boko Haram carnage kills 44 in Nigeria
At least 44 people were killed in twin bomb blasts in the central Nigerian city of Jos, the emergency services said yesterday, after a wave of mass casualty attacks blamed on Boko Haram militants.
6 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Dozens killed as Somali Shebab attacks AU base
Dozens of soldiers were killed yesterday when Somalia's Shebab insurgents overran an African Union base, witnesses said, describing
26 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Gun attacks, suicide blast kill dozens
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen shot dead at least 42 people in two separate attacks in northeast Nigeria, with no let-up in sight to the Islamist group's targeting of civilians.
24 June 2015, 18:00 PM
SA denies plot to protect Bashir
South Africa's government has denied reports that ministers secretly plotted the departure of Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir last week.
22 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Why you let Bashir go?
The South African government has a week to explain to judges why it defied a court order barring the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir from leaving the country.
16 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Sudan's Bashir flees S Africa
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir flew out of South Africa yesterday, dodging a court order for him to stay as judges weighed up whether he should be arrested over alleged war crimes and genocide.
15 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Top Islamist killed in US air strike
A top Islamist militant who ordered a deadly attack on an Algerian gas plant two years ago has been killed in a US air strike in Libya, officials say.
15 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Court blocks Sudan leader from leaving South Africa
A South African judge yesterday banned Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir from leaving the country after the International Criminal Court called for him to be arrested at a summit in Johannesburg.
14 June 2015, 18:00 PM