Weeks of torrential rain after a long drought have turned from blessing to curse in East Africa, killing hundreds of people and displacing hundreds of thousands of others.

Suicide bombers killed more than 60 people at a mosque and a market in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday, in a twin attack bearing the

Explosions in and around a mosque in northeast Nigeria killed at least 20 people, police say.

Two suicide bombers killed three Muslim worshippers in a mosque in a northeast Nigerian town. The bombers, a man and a woman,

Some 139 members of a Bangladeshi Formed Police Unit (FPU) serving with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) have been awarded the UN medal for their efforts to support peace in the West African country.

As Nigeria prepares to mark the fourth anniversary of the Chibok kidnapping, UNICEF yesterday reported that over 1,000 children have

It was a handshake that drew a line under Kenya's bruising election, left many people bewildered and swung open the starting gate for

Boko Haram killed at least 18 people and wounded scores in coordinated attacks overnight on a military camp and villages around the flashpoint Nigerian city of Maiduguri, which they also tried to infiltrate across a defensive trench, officials said yesterday.

Twelve people are killed and another 25 were injured when the bus they were traveling in careened off a road in a coastal region of western Ecuador, officials say.

Boko Haram Islamists who kidnapped 110 schoolgirls in Dapchi, northeast Nigeria, just over a month ago have so far returned 101 of

Boko Haram Islamists who kidnapped 110 schoolgirls in Dapchi, northeast Nigeria, just over a month ago have returned 76 of the students to the town, the government says.

A powerful tropical storm that lashed the island of Madagascar has left 20 people dead and affected 19,000 more, according to an

Suspected Boko Haram jihadists killed five fishermen on a remote island in northeastern Nigeria for aiding the search

Richard Appiah Akoto who used his blackboard to explain computer features and software to his students in the southern Ghana, is earning numerous headlines and worldwide admiration, reports CNN.

Cubans yesterday voted to ratify a new National Assembly, a key step in a process leading to the election of a new

Up to 14 people were killed in landslides and by collapsed buildings during a powerful earthquake in the remote Papua New Guinea

The Nigerian government on Sunday confirmed that 110 girls were missing after a Boko Haram school attack in the

More than 100 girls are reported missing after a Boko Haram school attack in northeast Nigeria this week that President Muhammadu

At least five refugees were killed and 20 injured at a camp in Rwanda when a protest over a cut in food rations turned violent, Rwandan police said yesterday. The refugees from neighbouring Republic of Congo were protesting against a 25 percent cut implemented last month in rations provided by the UNHCR.

More than 90 Nigerian schoolgirls are feared missing after Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram attacked a village in the northeastern