Africa

Port Louis: Mauritius's Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth has dissolved parliament and announced that the Indian Ocean island nation would hold a...

Kigali: Unidentified attackers have killed at least eight people and wounded 18 others during an overnight attack in northern Rwanda near the border with...

Tunis: Tunisians headed to the polls on Sunday to elect their representatives at the popular assembly, in the second such vote since the 2011...

Cairo: Egyptian security forces have blocked access to Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the highly symbolic focal point of the 2011 revolution, as part of a...

Mogadishu: A US military base used to launch drones and a European military convoy have been hit in separate attacks in Somalia. A journalist saw a...

Dakar: Senegal's president has pardoned the former mayor of the capital city Dakar, who was jailed for five years in 2018 on corruption...

Equatorial Guinea: A collection of luxury cars seized from Equatorial Guinea’s vice president, Teodorin Obiang Nguema, will be auctioned off in...

Kibera: A global conference on poverty is to take place in Africa’s largest slum in an effort to make sure the poorest get a voice. The inaugural World...

Burkina Faso: Nearly 500 men and boys have been rescued from a building in the northern city of Kaduna, where the detainees were allegedly sexually abused...

Harare: Independent Zimbabwe’s first leader Robert Mugabe will be buried at his rural home over the weekend, ending a tug of war between the government...