Africa

Juba: South Sudan President Salva Kiir has rejected opposition calls for him to resign as part of efforts to end a civil war, accusing anti-government...

Addis Ababa: Britain must permanently return all artefacts from Ethiopia held by the Victoria and Albert Museum and Addis Ababa will not accept them on...

Bamako/Paris: Homemade rockets shook the northern Mali city of Timbuktu on Sunday near UN and French military bases where militants launched a deadly...

Antananarivo: One person was killed on Saturday when Madagascar police fired tear gas at opposition demonstrators protesting against new electoral laws they...

Luwero (Uganda): In a small Ugandan town in February, Juma Nsereko took a panicked call from his wife: their five-year-old twin girls were missing and the...

Addis Ababa: Internet users in Ethiopia said on Monday the government appeared to have ended a three-month online blackout, raising hopes of a relaxation of...

Nairobi: Three Kenyan election officials resigned on Monday, increasing chaos at the electoral Commission following last year's botched presidential...

Bunia (DRC): The last thing 11-year-old Mave Grace saw before falling unconscious was men with machetes killing her pregnant mother. When Grace woke she was...

Soweto (South Africa): South Africa laid to rest anti-apartheid heroine Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Saturday, after 40,000 people from across the political...

Kakuma (Kenya): Knives. Wire. Battery acid. Rat poison. Rope. All are items which aid workers say they have confiscated from refugees in the Kakuma camp in...