Siyanda Manana, a spokesperson for the Eastern Cape provincial health department, said the bodies were being transported to state mortuaries and autopsies...
The New York Times reported that Biden also approved a plan to target about a dozen suspected leaders of al-Shabab.
Deborah Samuel, a student of Shehu Shagari College of Education was on Thursday stoned to death by a mob of Muslim students...
A Burundian official told VOA Somali said what caught soldiers by surprise was the enormity of explosives detonated at the camp, adding...
Since October 2021, the cholera epidemic has claimed 62 lives with nearly 2,100 cases reported.
On February 1, heavily armed men attacked government buildings in the capital Bissau while President Umaro Sissoco Embalo was chairing a cabinet...
Leaders from the two continents will meet in Brussels to discuss, among other things, the reaction to the pandemic and helping Africa...
Videos circulating on social media showed corpses slumped over market stalls with their legs immersed in muddy water, in some cases up...
Some scholars predict that Niger could go the way of its neighbours and others are going so far as to urge the...
Known by his initials IBK, Keita ran the West African country from September 2013 until August 2020, during which Islamist insurgents overran...
In a terse statement issued Monday, president said he had fired the minister with immediate effect for misconduct deemed inappropriate for a...
LAMU, KENYA: Six people have been killed and homes torched in an attack Monday by suspected Al Shabaab militants in Kenya’s coastal...
Abdalla Hamdok steps down as mass protests continue against a deal he signed with the military following a coup on October 25.
As 2021 draws to a close, it is time to remember some of the pioneering, inspiring and controversial figures on the African...
The death toll from the suicide attack in the eastern city of Beni, on the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern border with...
Somalia’s President Mohamed Farmaajo on Monday suspended his Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble from his position, raising stakes in their worsening working...
NAIROBI, KENYA: Kenya’s Ministry of Health has announced it will enforce a rule requiring people to be vaccinated against COIVD-19 to access...
LAGOS, NIGERIA: Nigeria destroyed more than one million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday after authorities said they could not be...
GENEVA – U.N. human rights officials are calling on Sudanese authorities to investigate and bring to justice members of the security forces...
The government says the new tax would boost revenue for development, but parliament has been split over the idea and fights broke...
Both presidential and legislative polls had been slated for December 24, but in early October parliament split the dates of the votes,...