Africa

Juba: Fighting at a United Nations compound sheltering people fleeing conflict in South Sudan has killed 18 people, including two Medicins Sans Frontieres...

Barcelona: Nearly 1 million children need treatment for severe malnutrition in eastern and southern Africa due to drought that is putting millions more at...

Nairobi: Militant group Al Shabaab killed Somalia's former defence minister with a car bomb in capital Mogadishu on Monday, officials said. Al Shabaab,...

Kampala: Ugandan police on Monday briefly detained opposition leader Kizza Besigye and fired teargas to disperse hundreds of his supporters in the capital...

Harare: As many as 49 million people in southern Africa could be affected by a drought that has been worsened by the most severe and longest El Nino weather...

Luanda: Fifty-one people have now died in a yellow fever outbreak in Angola, less than two months after it started spreading in the capital, the national...

Brussels: European Union foreign ministers said on Monday they were prepared to strengthen economic sanctions on Burundi following the failure of talks to...

Nairobi: A grenade attack on a military base in Burundi's capital killed a child and wounded his father and one other person, an official and witnesses...

Bangui: Central Africans cast their ballots on Sunday in an election meant to restore democratic rule, determined to turn the page on years of bloodshed...

Nairobi: Unidentified gunmen shot dead two people in an apparent targeted killing late on Friday in Burundi, where months of violence linked to the...