Africa

Ukara (Tanzania): Divers on Saturday rescued a man from the wreck of an overcrowded Tanzanian ferry that capsized on Lake Victoria on Thursday, killing at...

Nairobi: Kenya's president has proposed hiking taxes on mobile payments and other money transfer services, documents sent to parliament this month...

Lamu( Kenya): Kenyan islanders have built a boat made entirely of recycled plastic collected during clean-ups of the ocean to highlight the growing menace...

Kigali: Rwanda on Saturday freed Victoire Ingabire, an opposition leader who has served six years of a 15 year jail term, after President Paul Kagame...

Washington: A small stone flake marked with intersecting lines of red ochre pigment some 73,000 years ago that was found in a cave on South Africa's...

Harare: Zimbabwe declared a cholera outbreak in the capital Harare after 20 people died from the disease and more than 2,000 were infected by drinking...

Addis Ababa: The leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea re-opened crossing points on their shared border on Tuesday for the first time in 20 years, clearing the...

Beni( Democratic Republic of Congo): When Esperance Nzavaki heard she was cured of Ebola after three weeks of cutting-edge care at a medical centre in...

Mogadishu: A suicide car bomb rammed into a local government office in Somalia's capital on Monday, killing at least six people in an attack claimed by...

Juba: At least 19 people died in South Sudan on Sunday when a small aircraft carrying passengers from capital Juba to the city of Yirol crashed, an official...