Africa

Kinshasa: Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo are planning to use a second Ebola vaccine to help control an outbreak that has killed more than...

Monrovia: At least 27 people, many of them children, have been killed in a fire at a boarding school in a suburb of the Liberian capital Monrovia. The fire...

Tunis: The first exit polls in Tunisia’s presidential elections suggest a shock victory for two political outsiders, law professor Kaïs Saïed and media...

Tunis: Tunisia is holding its second free presidential poll since the 2011 uprising that toppled ex-president Ben Ali and sparked the Arab Spring. It was...

Berlin: Germany is planning to hold a UN-backed international conference on the future of Libya in an attempt to force the many regional actors to stop...

Nairobi: African heads of state and envoys are gathering to attend a state funeral for Zimbabwe’s founding president, Robert Mugabe, whose burial has been...

Cameroon President Paul Biya has said in a rare public address that he is organising a "national dialogue" for the end of the month on all the...

Abuja: Nigeria has denied allegations it has detained thousands of children for suspected links to Islamist militant group Boko Haram. A report released...

Singapore City: The body of deceased Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe has left Singapore on a private flight destined for his home country of Zimbabwe. The...

Nairobi: A Kenyan police officer is being praised for teaching pupils whose teachers failed to turn up for work after a non-governmental organisation posted...