The European Union on Tuesday agreed to launch a new mission to boost police and national guard forces in Mali, its second operation in the vast African nation threatened by…
A Moroccan court jailed a British man for 20 years Tuesday for kidnapping and attempting to rape three young girls, a rights activist at the trial told AFP. Robert Bill,…
African peacekeepers escorted more than 1,000 minority Muslims fleeing attacks by mainly Christian militias in the Central African Republic to neighbouring Chad, police told AFP on Saturday. "Not a single…
A 14-year-old Nigerian girl whose parents forced her to marry a 35-year-old man was arrested after she allegedly killed the man and his friends with a rat poison-laced wedding meal.…
Police in Uganda have accused a US-funded AIDS project that they raided last week of paying young men to become homosexuals, a report said Thursday. Quoting a police statement explaining…
A small team of US Marines are to head soon to Chad's Zakouma National Park to train local forces in the fight against the poaching threatening the area's elephant herds.…
Hanergy Solar is currently in the process of developing a 400 MW PV power plant in Northern Ghana, according to a recent press release. The project is still in its…
South Africa's workplaces are still heavily racially skewed 20 years after the fall of apartheid, with only one fifth of top executive positions held by blacks, said a report published…
West Africa's Ebola unprecedented outbreak is among the "most challenging" for health workers since the deadly disease emerged elsewhere in Africa four decades ago as the suspected death toll topped…
Guinea's government raised the death toll in the Ebola epidemic raging through its southern forests and capital to 95 on Monday. The health ministry added nine deaths to the toll…
Greetings, France needs to admit role in 1994 genocide: Rwanda A Rwandan girl visits the graves of some of the 800,000 people killed in the 1994 genocide. (File photo) Rwanda…
Miner's wife Nomfanelo Jali hasn't been able to serve her family meat in a month and increasingly struggles to put anything on the table at all, as South Africa's long-running…
West African countries mobilised Friday against an epidemic of haemorrhagic fevers including Ebola, which has claimed more than 80 lives in Guinea with more suspected cases in Mali, Liberia and…
The World Food Program sounded an alarm Friday over arid conditions in northwest Haiti that have worsened an already dire food shortage in this impoverished country. "The situation is worrying,"…
Mali said Thursday it had detected three suspected victims of Ebola, the deadly disease that has killed 84 people in Guinea. "Three suspected cases of haemorrhagic fever have been detected…
African and European leaders held crisis talks Wednesday on the "terrifying" violence in the Central African Republic, where peacekeepers have been unable to stop a deadly spiral of Christian-Muslim strife.…
US Secretary of State John Kerry was scrambling Wednesday to save his faltering Middle East peace efforts, after both Israel and Palestinians delivered him a stunning slap in the face.…
A South African teacher is facing a possible murder charge following the death of a student he allegedly beat on the head with a belt, the education department said Wednesday.…
Life goes on for the people of the Ebola-hit Guinean city of Gueckedou, but their defiance masks widespread terror of the invisible menace stalking their dusty streets. The southern city's…
Five new cases of the deadly Ebola virus have been recorded in Guinea in the past 24 hours, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. The total number of suspected and…
Hundreds of residents of the Central African Republic capital Bangui were still fleeing on Tuesday after an attack in which Chadian soldiers fired into a crowd, killing at least 24.…
A South African law requiring lenders to erase defaulters' credit history took effect Tuesday despite protests from banks and opposition parties that branded the move as populist vote-buying. Credit bureaus…
Aid organisation Doctors Without Borders said Monday an Ebola outbreak suspected of killing dozens in Guinea was an "unprecedented epidemic" as Liberia confirmed its first cases of the deadly contagion.…
Sudan on Sunday accused the European Union of trying to divide Africa after the EU refused to invite President Omar al-Bashir to a major summit this week. Bashir is wanted…
Guinea raced Sunday to contain a spiralling Ebola epidemic spreading from its southern forests to the capital Conakry, as the death toll rose to 78 and neighbouring Senegal closed its…
Guinea kept up its efforts on Saturday to contain an Ebola epidemic which has killed dozens spreading from its southern forests to the capital Conakry, as neighbouring Senegal closed its…
Greetings, It’s hard for them to give up their prey. They have ruled Africa under colonial imperial dictates for some time now and they refuse to go back to Europe…
Greetings, 103 Ebola cases registered in Guinea as deadly virus hits capital, neighboring states Photo: EPA Guinea’s capital Conakry was on high alert on Friday after a deadly Ebola epidemic…
Guinea's capital Conakry was on high alert on Friday after a deadly Ebola epidemic which has killed dozens in the southern forests was confirmed to have spread to the sprawling…
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe will boycott next week's mammoth EU-Africa summit after his wife was not invited, a foreign ministry official said Friday. "We are no longer going to the…