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
Dozens feared dead in Niger boat tragedy
Forty-three people, most of them from Benin, are missing after an overloaded boat sank in the Niger River, a local official said yesterday.
14 February 2019, 18:46 PM
23 miners feared dead in flood
At least 23 illegal gold miners were feared dead in Zimbabwe yesterday after water flooded two disused shafts in a mining town 145
14 February 2019, 18:32 PM
Several dead in rally stampede in Nigeria ahead of election
Several people are killed when a stampede erupted at a campaign rally of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari days ahead of general elections, his office says.
13 February 2019, 04:43 AM
Outcry over Uganda plan to draw tourists with 'curvy women'
Female Ugandan activists yesterday slammed a government campaign to use "curvy women" as a tourism "product", which has sparked a furore in the east African nation.
7 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Nigerian vice president safe after helicopter crash lands: spokesman
Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was safe after his helicopter crash landed in the north central state of Kogi, his spokesman says.
2 February 2019, 15:00 PM
31 killed after migrant boats sink off Djibouti
The death toll from the sinking of two migrant boats off the coast of Djibouti has risen to 31, the UN migration agency said yesterday, with scores still feared missing.
30 January 2019, 18:00 PM
US air raid kills 52 Somali Islamists
United States military forces carried out an airstrike Saturday against Islamist group al-Shabaab, killing 52 militants, according to a
20 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Eight killed in Mali
Gunmen yesterday killed at least eight Chadian UN peacekeepers in an attack on one of their bases in northern Mali, multiple sources reported.
20 January 2019, 18:00 PM
DRC POLLS : SC confirms Tshisekedi as winner
Regional powers hailed Felix Tshisekedi as DR Congo's incoming president yesterday, despite claims by his opponents of an election
20 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Hunt on for attack planners
Kenyan security forces yesterday resumed their search of the hotel complex attacked by Islamists with sniffer dogs and bomb experts, as information emerged about one of the attackers who killed 21 people.
17 January 2019, 18:00 PM
19 missing in Kenya attack now accounted for: Red Cross
Nineteen people still missing two days after a Somali militant attack on a Nairobi hotel and office complex that killed 21 people are now accounted for, the Kenyan Red Cross said today.
17 January 2019, 10:31 AM
Siege ends after 20 hours
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday said that gunmen who stormed a luxury hotel complex, killing 14 people, had been "eliminated" after an almost 20-hour operation in which hundreds of civilians were rescued.
16 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Hotel complex, offices hit by blast, gunfire
A huge blast followed by a gun battle rocked an upmarket hotel and office complex in Nairobi yesterday, causing casualties, in an attack claimed by the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab Islamist group.
15 January 2019, 18:00 PM
US conducts series of strikes in Somalia
US forces have conducted a series of air strikes in Somalia in recent days, including one announced Wednesday that officials said killed
10 January 2019, 18:00 PM
DRC opposition chief wins vote
Opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi was yesterday declared the victor of DR Congo's controversial presidential election in a surprise result swiftly denounced by his rival as a "coup".
10 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Tear gas fired to break up Sudan protests
Sudanese police fired tear gas on Friday to break up protests in the capital Khartoum and its twin city of Omdurman, witnesses said.
5 January 2019, 18:00 PM
World pressure mounts on DR Congo ahead of election result
DR Congo was on edge yesterday, just 24 hours ahead of a deadline for announcing preliminary results from last week's crucial
5 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Brazil leader fires hundreds of 'left wing' civil servants
Brazil's new president has authorised the dismissal of civil servants who do not share his far-right ideology, it has been reported.
5 January 2019, 18:00 PM
New Brazil leader targets crime, leftwing 'ideology'
Brazil's new far-right President Jair Bolsonaro declared a crusade against crime, corruption and leftwing ideology as he took office
2 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Six US air strikes kill 62 militants
The US military said yesterday it had killed 62 militants in six air strikes on Saturday and Sunday in the vicinity of Gandarsh in Somalia's south-central Banaadir province.
17 December 2018, 18:00 PM