Africa

The Hague: Lawyers for Jean-Pierre Bemba, the Congolese ex-vice president whose war crimes conviction was quashed on appeal last week, requested his...

Niamey: Three suicide bombers killed 10 people at a mosque in Niger's southeastern city of Diffa who had gathered after breaking the Ramadan fast, an...

Addis Ababa: Landlocked Ethiopia, which lost its access to the Red Sea nearly three decades ago, plans to build a navy as part of military reforms,...

Abidjan: Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said he is free to stand for a third term in the 2020 presidential election under the country's new...

Harare: Zimbabwe will hold a general election on July 30, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Wednesday, a vote he has pledged will be free and fair with...

Nairobi: Kenyan authorities brought 24 civil servants and business people to court in handcuffs on Tuesday to hear charges against them amid an...

Geneva: The World Health Organization said on Tuesday almost all the people it considers at immediate risk from an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic...

Nairobi: Kenyan authorities have arrested the head of the National Youth Service as part of an investigation into a theft of nearly $100 million, media...

London: A vaccination campaign aimed at beating an outbreak of Ebola in Congo began on Monday in the port city of Mbandaka, where four cases of the deadly...

Goma (Democratic Republic of Congo): Health workers in Democratic Republic of Congo will begin a vaccination campaign on Monday aimed at containing an...