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Staring at the mound of mud where a house once stood, flood survivor Mluleki Hlophe is in a state of...

New aid convoys were in or on their way to Ethiopia's conflict-ravaged Tigray region Thursday, humanitarian agencies said, the latest...

In her 40 years living by the water's edge, Amissa Irakoze never much feared Lake Tanganyika. Floods were frequent, even...

A lorry transporting ballot material to Embu ahead of UDA’s nationwide primaries on Thursday, April 14 was ransacked and the...

A Ramadan TV series dealing with polygamy has sparked a heated debate in Tunisia, an Arab pioneer in women's rights...

President Muhammadu Buhari vowed on Tuesday there would be no mercy for those behind the killings of more than a...

A Malian army helicopter fired several rockets "close to" British members of a UN peacekeeping force in the country, the...

A repeat shoplifter from a city supermarket was Wednesday jailed for one year or pay an alternative fine of Sh100,000....

Deputy President William Ruto and ODM leader Raila Odinga’s allies in Parliament have joined forces to demand that the government...

Former cabinet minister Paul Otuoma will fly the ODM flag in the Busia governor race in the August 9 general...

The much-postponed corruption trial of South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma ran into fresh legal delays and health problems on Monday...

DR Congo's top court on Monday tossed out a 13-year jail term handed to a former aide to President Felix...

Gunmen who carried out a high-profile attack on a train in northwest Nigeria last month have released a video showing...

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday blasted vigilante groups for harassing migrants in South Africa, likening their behaviour to strategies adopted...

It's the Algerian start-up that made good: despite the country's notoriously complex business climate, taxi and home-delivery firm Yassir has...

Former Jubilee Party Secretary General Raphael Tuju has been appointed as the Executive Director of the Azimio Secretariat.  Azimio Presidential...

Motorists using the Nairobi Expressway will have the option of paying electronically or in cash. The Moja Expressway Company, which...

Burkina Faso's junta leader has announced the setting up of local committees to seek dialogue with armed jihadist groups and...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said it had resumed aid by road to the war-ravaged Ethiopian region...

Morocco's village of Inzerki is proud to claim it has the world's oldest and largest collective beehive, but instead of...

Ethiopia on Thursday failed to block the United Nations from funding an international committee that will investigate human rights violations...

The UN Security Council on Thursday voted unanimously for a new African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia, where Al-Shabaab insurgents...

Chad is in need of debt restructuring to help the country's economy, which saw weak growth last year, the IMF...

The French medical charity Doctors without Borders (MSF) said Thursday that five employees who were kidnapped more than a month...

A Sudanese protester was killed Thursday as thousands rallied against last year's military coup and worsening living conditions, medics and...

A senior World Bank official called for more support for poor people globally Thursday as the war in Ukraine sends...

The speaker of Tunisia's parliament on Thursday rejected President Kais Saied's dissolution of the assembly the previous day. "We consider...

South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma on Thursday lost another bid to delay his corruption trial, as a court rejected...

Inspector General Hillary Mutyambai has appealed against a Sh500,000 penalty fine imposed on him by the Senate Devolution Committee for...

A Liberian accused of having been a rebel leader during the deadly civil war that tore his country apart has...