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

Three suicide bombers killed 19 people at a fish market in northeast Nigeria, civilian militia leaders said yesterday, in an attack blamed

French air power on Wednesday killed at least 10 jihadists in northeast Mali near the border with Algeria, local and foreign military

Twenty-two students and their driver were Tuesday killed when their bus collided with a truck in northern Nigeria, sources said. The

Before man-made climate change kicked in -- and well before “Day Zero” in Cape Town, where taps may run dry in early May -- the global water crisis was upon us. Freshwater resources were already badly stressed before heat-trapping carbon emissions from fossil fuels began to warm Earth’s surface and affect rainfall.

Top leaders of South Africa's ruling ANC were set to meet yesterday to "finalise" the departure of embattled President Jacob Zuma after

The top decision-making body of South Africa's ruling ANC will meet tomorrow following days of talks over President Jacob Zuma's

South Africa's political impasse deepened yesterday with no resolution to extended talks over President Jacob Zuma's expected

The African Union's chairman yesterday dismissed during a visit to Beijing a French newspaper report alleging that China had spied on

Senior members of South Africa's ANC party were set to hold an emergency meeting yesterday to discuss whether Jacob Zuma should stay in

Nigeria's top judge handling corruption cases against public officials has himself been charged with bribery, court papers showed

All 955 gold miners who were trapped underground for more than a day in South Africa following a power cut resurfaced unharmed, and are greeted by overjoyed relatives waiting at the site.

Kenya's High Court ordered authorities to allow three major broadcasters to temporarily resume service yesterday, after they were

A Kenyan high court suspends a government shutdown of three private TV channels that was prompted by their coverage of opposition leader Raila Odinga's self-proclaimed presidential inauguration on Tuesday, one of the channels reported on its twitter feed.

Fighting between gangs at a prison in Brazil's northeastern Ceara state left 10 dead early Monday. The bloodshed took

Suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers killed 12 people and injured 48 others in an attack on Wednesday on the northeastern Nigerian

South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa yesterday called on prosecutors to act urgently in pursuit of a firm owned by friends

Cuts in food rations for 1.5 million refugees in east Africa, due to funding shortages, could increase school dropouts, crime and malnutrition, a United Nations official says. With humanitarian needs soaring around the world, donors are prioritising crises in Syria, Yemen and Bangladesh.