Africa

Juba: Washington accused both sides in South Sudan's two-year conflict of blocking peace efforts and protested, rebels said, by pulling funding for a...

Abidjan: Congolese rumba music legend Papa Wemba died after collapsing on stage in the Ivory Coast in the early hours of Sunday morning, according to the...

Kampala: Uganda will build a pipeline for its oil through Tanzania rather than Kenya, which had wanted to secure the export route, a summit of East African...

Juba: South Sudan's government has agreed on weapons it will let rebel leader Riek Machar bring on his return to the capital as part of a peace deal,...

Juba: South Sudan's government and rebels said on Wednesday a deal had been reached to let rebel leader Riek Machar return to the capital to form a...

Lusaka: Hundreds of people hurled stones at police and looted dozens of foreign-owned shops in different townships in Lusaka on Tuesday, police said, the...

Bahir Dar (Ethiopia): Plans for a new African counter-terrorism force to support vulnerable UN peacekeepers in Mali, where militant groups are stepping up...

Pretoria: Disgraced Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius will be sentenced in June for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, after his...

Johannesburg: A South African lion called "Sylvester" that twice broke out of his reserve - probably to escape threatening older males - will be...

Nairobi: Boko Haram child suicide bombings have surged 11-fold in West Africa over the last year, with children as young as 8, mostly girls, detonating...