Africa

New York: India is set to deploy a platoon of Women Peacekeepers in Sudan's Abyei region today as part of the Indian Battalion in the United Nations Interim...

North-Kivu: The United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo — also known as MONUSCO — has launched a...

Bamako: Disputes with Mali’s ruling military junta and their close relationship with Russia over the past two years have caused France, Germany and their...

Accra: Emmanuel Donkor, a corporate worker in Ghana's capital, Accra, is always looking forward to the last day of the year to have an opportunity to join...

Johannesburg: A gas tanker apparently stuck under a bridge exploded in Johannesburg on Saturday, killing eight people, injuring several people and damaging...

Washington: The United States committed to $15 billion worth of two-way trade deals with several countries in Africa during a summit in Washington this...

New York: India extended 'soft loans' worth $2 billion for projects in Central Africa, India's Permanent Representative to UN, Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj on...

Democratic Republic of Congo's government increased the death toll from a massacre last week in the eastern village of Kishishe to at least 272, officials...

Nairobi: Global solidarity is urgently needed to help vulnerable communities in the Horn of Africa survive a rapidly unfolding humanitarian catastrophe,...

Nairobi: Eric Njuguna is angry. The 20-year-old environmental activist is witnessing the devastating changes a warming planet is bringing to Kenya. People...