Africa

Nairobi: Kenya is drawing up a timetable to close Dadaab refugee camp that hosts about 350,000 Somalis because of security concerns, the interior minister...

Nairobi: Kenyan police fired tear gas and water cannon on Monday at stone-throwing protesters in Nairobi who had gathered to demand that a body supervising...

Mogadishu: A suicide car bomb at Mogadishu's traffic police headquarters killed at least two officers on Monday, Somali police said, and the...

Nairobi: Kenyan authorities said on Sunday the number of people killed when a multi-storey residential building collapsed in the capital Nairobi more than a...

Harare: Zimbabwe put its wild animals up for sale on Tuesday, saying it needed buyers to step in and save the beasts from a devastating drought. Members of...

Nairobi: Rescue workers pulled a 18-month-old baby girl out of the rubble of a building in Kenya's capital on Tuesday and reunited her with her father,...

Nairobi: Aid workers said hopes were fading of finding more survivors in the rubble of a collapsed building in Kenya's capital on Monday, as the death...

Nairobi: The death toll from a collapsed six-storey building in Nairobi has risen to 16 from 12, the Kenya Red Cross said on Sunday, but officials declined...

Mogadishu: Al Shabaab insurgents killed 15 Somali soldiers and retook a town northeast of the capital Mogadishu on Sunday, just one day after it had fallen...

Johannesburg: A group of 33 lions rescued from circuses in Peru and Columbia arrived by plane in Johannesburg on Saturday to begin a new life in the African...