Africa

Lagos: At least eight people were killed when a three-story building collapsed on Sunday night in Nigeria's southwest Lagos state, an emergency management...

Abuja: Over 100 people have been killed following an explosion at an illegal oil refinery in Nigeria's southern state of Imo, official and local sources...

Cape Town: A total of 395 people have been killed by flood in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal Province since Monday, a government official said on Friday.As of...

Durban: Devastating floods triggered by heavy rain in South Africa's Durban area have claimed over 300 lives and swept away homes and infrastructure....

Bamako: At least 886 civilians were killed, injured or missing in Mali in the second half of last year, the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated...

Dodoma: When Samia Suluhu Hassan became Tanzania's president a year ago after the sudden death of her predecessor John Magufuli, many women had high...

Bamako: Two Malian soldiers and nine terrorists were killed in an Armed Terrorist Groups (GAT) attack on Monday in the north of the country, confirmed the...

Somalia's leadership has made a swift reversal on an oil exploration deal signed with a US company. On Saturday, the Minister of Petroleum and Mineral...

Malawi has reported an outbreak of wild polio two and a half years after Africa was declared free of the virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on...

Geneva: World Health Organization Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on Thursday announced that Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa...