A snake burst onto the chamber floor of a state parliament building in southwest Nigeria, sending lawmakers scampering and forcing an

The World Health Organization declares Congo’s Ebola outbreak an international health emergency, sounding a rarely used global alarm after the virus threatened to spread to a major city and into neighbouring countries.

Thirteen people in central Nigeria died after a three-storey residential building collapsed after torrential rain, emergency workers said

South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma yesterday dismissed multiple graft allegations against him, telling a judicial inquiry he was

At least 26 people, including several foreigners, are killed and 56 injured in a suicide bomb and gun attack claimed by Al-Shabaab militants on a popular hotel in southern Somalia, a top regional official has said.

The number of endangered rhinos in Tanzania has risen by 1,000 per cent after a government crackdown on organised gangs guilty of

Eleven people drowned yesterday when their boat capsized on a river in central Niger, the governor of the region told AFP. The accident

Dozens of African migrants are feared to have drowned after their boat capsized off the coast of Tunisia after setting of for Europe from Libya, a government source and the Tunisian Red Crescent have said on Thursday.

Crowds of jubilant Sudanese took to the streets of Khartoum yesterday to celebrate a landmark deal between protest leaders and the country’s ruling generals aimed at turning the page on months of political unrest.

At least 27 people died and nine were missing Wednesday when their fishing boat sank off the Caribbean coast of Honduras, the

At least 16 people were crushed to death and dozens injured in Madagascar on Wednesday at a stadium hosting national independence

Sudanese riot police yesterday fired tear gas at scores of students who rallied against the ruling generals near the presidential palace in

At least 16 people are crushed to death and dozens injured in Madagascar at a stadium hosting national independence day celebrations in the capital Antananarivo.

West African troops killed 42 suspected Islamic State fighters in a battle in the Lake Chad region on June 21, the heaviest death toll suffered by the

Ethiopia’s army chief and a top local leader have been shot dead during an attempt to overthrow a regional government in northern

Two Bangladeshi female pilots have become the role models for Congolese women and girls while serving the United Nations peacekeeping mission and overcoming challenges boldly.

A grandmother in Uganda has died from Ebola, health officials said yesterday, the second fatality in the country since a major outbreak in

Shops began to reopen in Sudan’s capital yesterday after demonstrators called off a nationwide civil disobedience campaign and agreed to new talks, though many residents remained indoors following last week’s deadly crackdown.

A protest strike kept businesses shut and residents indoors in the Sudanese capital yesterday as a top US diplomat prepared a visit to press the ruling generals to halt a bloody crackdown.

Sudanese authorities yesterday released three prominent rebels who were detained after a brutal crackdown on protesters last week that