At least five people were killed on Monday when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque in northeastern Nigeria, a militia member assisting the...
Khalifa Haftar, who controls eastern Libya, has ordered an investigation after 36 unidentified bodies were found in an area to the east of Benghazi. The bodies...
The Somali government has fired two top security officials after twin blasts and a siege left at least 27 people dead on Saturday. They came just...
At least 10 people have been killed in a double car bombing in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, which is still reeling from an attack that left...
Voting is under way in Kenya amid tight security in a re-run of the presidential election, which is being boycotted by the main opposition. Police have...
The death toll from last Saturday’s huge truck bombing in the Somali capital Mogadishu has risen to 358, the information minister says. Some 56 people are...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has appointed President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe as a “goodwill ambassador” to help tackle non-communicable diseases. New WHO head Dr Tedros...
LONDON – An Irishman who was detained and locked up in a Cairo jail since Egypt’s bloody coup in August 2013 has finally been released from...
The most powerful bomb blast ever witnessed in Somalia’s capital killed 276 people with around 300 others injured, the country’s information minister said early Monday, making...
The number of casualties in deadly truck bomb blast in Mogadishu, Somalia has risen to 53, AP reports, citing security and medical sources. More than 60...
Two staff members of a Kenyan university were killed south of Mombasa on Tuesday when gunmen fired on vehicles carrying them and students to their campus,...