Africa

Abuja: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari needs further rest in Britain following medical tests but there is no need to worry about his health, his...

Mogadishu: A car bomb ripped through a market in Mogadishu on Sunday, killing 39 people and injuring around 50, a local official said, days after Somalia...

Harare: Zimbabwe's people and the ruling ZANU-PF party see no viable alternative candidate to President Robert Mugabe for general elections in 2018,...

Dakar: For one Gambian government minister, the ceremonial swearing in of President Adama Barrow marked the new dawn of a democracy he was jailed 22 times...

Nairobi: Kenya's Court of Appeal on Wednesday ordered the release from jail of officials from the national doctors' union so they can negotiate with...

Nairobi: Doctors in Kenya's private healthcare system will walk out from midnight in protest at the jailing of some of their colleagues for striking at...

Nairobi: A Kenyan judge on Monday ordered officials from the national doctors' union to be jailed amid a strike in public hospitals that has turned into...

Nairobi: A South Sudanese general has resigned, citing abuses by the security forces against civilians and what he called increasing ethnic favouritism in...

Johannesburg: South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has authorised more than 400 soldiers to join the security team at his annual state of the nation...

Harare: Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court dismissed a case against President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday lodged by an activist who accused the ageing...