Africa

Geneva: World powers can stop a "Rwanda-like" genocide in South Sudan if they immediately deploy a 4,000-strong protection force across the...

Banjul: West African heads of state began arriving in Gambia on Tuesday to try to convince the long-ruling President Yahya Jammeh to relinquish power after...

Nairobi: Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Monday the country will have to think seriously about its membership in the International Criminal...

UYO (Nigeria): At least 100 people were killed by the collapse of a church in southeastern Nigeria, a resident and photojournalist who visited the town...

Naivasha(Kenya): A fireball from an oil lorry engulfed vehicles on one of Kenya's main highways, killing at least 42 people late on Saturday, a rescue...

Banjul: Gambia's President-elect Adama Barrow said on Saturday the country's outgoing leader Yahya Jammeh had no authority to reject the results of...

NAIROBI: Doctors working in Kenyan state hospitals went on strike on Monday to demand fulfilment of a 2013 agreement between their union and the government...

ANTANANARIVO: Family members of those lost aboard a Malaysia Airlines flight that went missing in 2014 criticised Malaysian investigators on Sunday for not...

Banjul: Gambians reacted with joy and stunned disbelief on Saturday to the defeat of President Yahya Jammeh, one day after he conceded that he lost an...

Libreville: Gabon has postponed legislative elections set for December 27 until next July because of a lack of money, the interior ministry said in a...