Africa

Airstrikes in northern Sinai have killed 19 members of Egypt’s Islamic State affiliate, including three of its leaders, the Egyptian military said on Thursday. Islamic State this week claimed an …

Before Alaafin Adeyemi II ascended the throne of his ancestors in 1945, his own father, Oba Adeyemi I Alowolodu, had reigned from 1876 to 1905. Adeyemi II would sit on …

Swaziland King Mswati III has banned divorce in the southern African nation. The Times of Swaziland newspaper quoted King Mswati issuing the decree at his Easter meeting with local pastors …

A Rwandan court Thursday sentenced Bernard Munyagishari to life imprisonment for his role in the 1994 genocide. Munyagishari, a former secretary of former President Juvenal Habyarimana’s National Republican Movement for …

The UN said Wednesday it had found a further 17 mass graves in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s central Kasai region, an area plagued by violence between tribal militias and …

After three failed to attempts to dislodge Africa’s oldest ruler, Zimbabwe’s veteran opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is convinced he has finally found the formula to send President Robert Mugabe to …

U.N. investigators have discovered 17 mass grave sites in the central Democratic Republic of Congo, bringing the total to 40 documented in an area where the army has clashed with …

Libyan fishermen found the bodies of 28 illegal migrants who appeared to have died of thirst and hunger after their boat broke down off the coast of Sabratha city. This …

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has marked the country’s 37th anniversary of independence with a call for tranquillity even as the economy has collapsed to the point where livestock is being …

At least five churchgoers died after an overloaded wooden boat carrying more than 60 passengers back from Easter celebrations capsized on Lake Malawi, police said Monday. Police spokesman Victor Khamisi …