Africa

Mogadishu: The speaker of Somalia's parliament resigned on Monday after a dispute with President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed. The resignation of Mohamed...

Abuja: Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari will seek another term in elections in February 2019, his office said on Monday, ending months of...

Addis Ababa: Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiye Ahmed travelled on Saturday to a region where clashes have displaced nearly a million people, his first trip...

Yaounde: Cameroon's army has freed 18 hostages, including seven Swiss and five Italian tourists, who were kidnapped by English-speaking separatists in...

Johannesburg: Anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, wife to Nelson Mandela during his decades of imprisonment, died on Monday, a family...

Freetown: The opposition Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) said on Monday that its candidate Julius Maada Bio had won a presidential run-off election...

Addis Ababa: Ethiopia's new prime minister, Abiye Ahmed, promised on Monday to push through democratic reforms in an effort to end three years of unrest...

Maiduguri (Nigeria): A Boko Haram attack in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri killed at least 15 people and wounded 83, a military spokesman said on Monday, in...

Addis Ababa: Ethiopia's parliament swore in Abiye Ahmed as prime minister on Monday with a mandate to implement democratic reforms aimed partly at...

Gaborone: Botswana's new president, sworn in on Sunday as the landlocked country's fifth post-colonial leader, said he would give priority to...