Africa

Ethiopia has declared three days of national mourning for victims of a landslide at a rubbish landfill site in the capital Addis Ababa. Flags flew at half-mast on Wednesday as …

Hosni Mubarak, who was overthrown as president of Egypt in an uprising in 2011, will be released from detention in a military hospital, the public prosecutor ruled on Monday, his …

South African president, Jacob Zuma has pulled a massive shocker after announcing an immediate ban to all citizens from Southern Africa. Effective immediately, citizens from these countries will no longer …

The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) on Thursday confirmed that the leader of the militant group al-Shabaab has surrendered to government forces in Baidoa town in southern Somalia. The …

The senate has cancelled its planned visit to the South African parliament to protest against the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians. Ike Ekweremadu, deputy senate president, announced the decision of upper …

South African authorities have been asked to appear at the International Criminal Court on April 7 over the country’s failure to arrest Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir during a visit …

President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana said on Monday the country had run out of excuses for failing to end poverty and corruption, 60 years after it became the first in …

South Sudan’s incumbent president Salva Kiir’s government is facing underscoring mounting resistance from a disatisfied retired army general who quit his position last month and announced on Monday that he had formed …

No fewer than eight people were killed and 28 others injured in a stampede in Lusaka on Monday as thousands of poor people struggled to claim food handouts, said Zambian …

The Chairperson of the African Union (AU), President Alpha Conde of Guinea, on Friday initiated a phone call to President Muhammadu Buhari in London, to wish him good health and …