Africa

Mogadishu: A roadside bomb killed at least seven people on Sunday - mostly women farmers - in an area outside the Somali capital dominated by insurgents who...

Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) was poised on Sunday to sideline Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador after major Western...

Niamey: Gunmen mounted on pick-up trucks and motorcycles killed 12 gendarmes and wounded several in an attack on their base in western Niger, near the Mali...

Geneva/London: The World Health Organisation (WHO) should overturn its decision to appoint of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador,...

Nairobi: The head of Kenya's election commission has said it will be "difficult" to guarantee that next week's presidential election will...

Mogadishu: Thousands of Somalis demonstrated on Wednesday against those behind bombings that killed more than 300 people at the weekend, defying police who...

Nairobi: A top Kenyan election commissioner has quit and fled the country a week before a re-run of the presidential vote, citing political intimidation and...

Johannesburg: South African President Jacob Zuma made a close associate energy minister on Tuesday as his government tries to push through a big nuclear...

Nairobi: Somalia is in desperate need for donated blood to treat survivors of a truck bombing in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday that killed more than 300...

Mogadishu: More than 300 people died after twin bomb explosions in Mogadishu, an official said on Monday, as locals packed hospitals in search of friends...