Africa

Kenya’s border with Somalia will re-open in April almost 15 years after it shut because of attacks by Islamist militant...

Kenya says it will talk to Russia over growing reports that its citizens are being recruited to fight in the...

Sustained gunshots have been heard near the central prison in Guinea’s capital, Conakry, according to reports by AFP and Reuters....

Gunmen killed three people and abducted a Catholic priest during an early morning attack on the clergyman’s residence in northern...

A 52-year-old fisherman has died after being attacked by a crocodile while fleeing a herd of elephants in eastern Zambia,...

A Nigerian socialite, Nzube Henry Ikeji, has been accused of orchestrating a sophisticated scam in which he allegedly impersonated the...

Nigeria will deploy an army battalion to a district in the west of the country where suspected jihadist fighters killed...

At least 200 people have been killed in a series of violent attacks on remote communities in central and northern...

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has sacked two senior aides following an embarrassing situation where he appointed a dead man...

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's sister told Libyan media he had died near the Libya-Algeria border