Africa

Bamako: Malian troops backed by UN helicopters stormed a UN police base in the city of Timbuktu and recaptured it from suspected militants who had seized it...

Harare: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has declared a state of disaster in most rural parts of the country severely hit by a drought, with 26 per cent...

Fedeto/Addis Ababa: On a treeless plain in eastern Ethiopia, thousands of destitute pastoralists have set up camp outside the tiny village of Fedeto. Over...

Nairobi: Burundi police have arrested a British and a French journalist during a sweep for rebels in flashpoint districts of the capital, officials said on...

Geneva: The United Nations said on Friday it had allegations that peacekeepers from Georgia, France and another unnamed European country physically abused...

Mogadishu: Somalia's Al Shabaab group said on Sunday it had captured some Kenyan soldiers during an attack last week on military bases in western...

Ouagadougou: Security forces in Burkina Faso retook a hotel in the capital on Saturday from Al Qaeda militants who seized it in an assault that killed two...

Freetown: A woman who died of Ebola this week in Sierra Leone potentially exposed at least 27 other people to the disease, raising the possibility of...

Bamako: A Swiss woman was kidnapped overnight from a house in the northern Mali city of Timbuktu, a spokesman for the Malian army, Souleymane Maiga told...

Mogadhishu: A suicide bomber attacked a popular restaurant in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, on Saturday, killing himself and at least three others, Somali...