Africa

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...

Dodoma: The death toll from Sunday's plane crash in Lake Victoria in Tanzania has jumped to 19, media reports said quoting Prime Minister Kassim...

Nairobi: Tanzania's Precision Air crashed into Lake Victoria which is Africa's largest lake by area on Sunday, CNN reported citing the officials.The largest...

Blue Nile: Two days of tribal fighting in Sudan's south killed at least 220 people, a senior health official said on Sunday.Fighting in Blue Nile province,...

Kismayo: Nine civilians were killed in an attack on a hotel in Somalia's port city Kismayo on Sunday, media reports said.The assault began at 09:45 GMT when...

Abuja: At least 76 people were killed in a boat accident in Nigeria's Anambra state on Sunday after a boat carrying 85 persons capsized following rising...

Burkina Faso's junta leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba has agreed to step down, religious leaders said Sunday, after a mutiny within the military left the...

At least five people were killed in Kirigiti on the outskirts of Kenya's capital, Nairobi, after a six-story building collapsed on Monday.