Africa

Addis Ababa: Protesters in Ethiopia have damaged almost a dozen mostly foreign-owned factories and flower farms and destroyed scores of vehicles this week,...

Johannesburg: South African students protesting against high tuition fees have demanded that all universities be shut until the government provides free...

Johannesburg: Clashes between police and student protesters forced South Africa's Wits University to suspend classes for the second time in less than a...

Johannesburg: Protesters at South Africa's Wits University attacked police vehicles with rocks and overturned another on Tuesday, as violence in...

ADDIS ABABA: Protests broke out in some areas of Ethiopia's Oromiya region on Monday, a day after dozens of people were killed in a stampede at a...

Addis Ababa: More than 50 people were killed in a stampede in Ethiopia's Oromiya region that was triggered when police used teargas and shot in the air...

Nairobi: Police killings of Kenyans are on the rise, a Kenyan newspaper said on Sunday, as it published the country's first comprehensive database...

Dakar: Mauritanian anti-slavery activists jailed last month have been tortured in detention and transferred to a remote desert location in an...

Nairobi: The campaign to track down poachers and protect endangered species in Africa's embattled reserves is tapping into the technology used in the...

THE HAGUE:War crimes judges on Tuesday sentenced a former extremist rebel who admitted wrecking shrines during Mali's 2012 conflict to nine years in...