Africa

Abidjan: Mutinous soldiers in Ivory Coast shot two people and cut off access to the second largest city, Bouake, on Saturday, as a nationwide revolt over...

Nairobi: Seven South Sudanese opposition groups, including that of rebel leader Riek Machar, said on Saturday they had agreed to work closely in their bid...

Juba: South Sudan's sacked former army chief Paul Malong sought on Wednesday to allay concerns he might join a revolt after leaving the capital Juba...

Madrid: Around 300 sub-Saharan African migrants stormed the six-metre razor-wire fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla early on Tuesday,...

Abuja: Some of the Chibok schoolgirls abducted three years ago by extremist Boko Haram militants refused to be part of a group of 82 girls freed at the...

Mogadishu: A suicide bomber rammed a car laden with explosives into a cafe in central Mogadishu on Monday, killing at least eight people in an attack...

Dar es Salam: Thirty-two schoolchildren, two teachers and a minibus driver where killed in Tanzania when their vehicle plunged into a roadside ravine in the...

Geneva: About 1.4 million children in drought-hit Somalia are projected to suffer acute malnutrition this year, 50 per cent more than estimated in January,...

Johannesburg: South African President Jacob Zuma made a hasty exit from a May Day rally on Monday after the crowd of workers that he was due to address...

Nairobi: Gunmen wounded Italian-born conservationist Kuki Gallmann at her conservation park on Sunday in the latest of a string of attacks during land...