Africa

Banjul: Gambia's leader Yahya Jammeh said he was stepping down on Saturday under pressure from West African armies which entered the country this week...

BANJUL: Gambia's parliament has passed a resolution to allow President Yahya Jammeh to stay in office for another three months, as the veteran leader on...

GENEVA: At least 76 people were killed in Tuesday's accidental Nigerian Air Force strike on a refugee camp and more than 100 were wounded, the...

BAMAKO: At least 47 people including five suicide bombers were killed when a vehicle packed with explosives detonated inside a military camp in the northern...

Maiduguri: A professor at the University of Maiduguri and a child were killed and 17 people wounded on Monday in a twin suicide bombing in the city in...

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) is not bound by tradition to elect its deputy as leader, President Jacob Zuma said in an...

NYANZA (Rwanda): The last king of Rwanda, who died aged 80 in October in the United States after decades in exile, was buried in his ancestral home in the...

Khartoum: Sudan said on Sunday it would extend a unilateral ceasefire in fighting with rebels in the country's warring regions to six months, state news...

Dakar: Gambia's President-elect Adama Barrow has left the country for neighbouring Senegal, a coalition member and local media said on Sunday, a day...

Khartoum: The Obama administration's preliminary decision to ease sanctions on Sudan came with the full approval of the incoming Trump administration...