240 Rebels Depart Central African Republic Capital
Witnesses say several hundred Muslim rebels have left the capital of Central African Republic and are now heading back to the country's north about...
Ebola kills 31 people in DR Congo
Kinshasa - An outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed 31 people and the epidemic remains contained in...
US strike targets leader of Somali extremist group
Mogadishu, Somalia (AP) — U.S. airstrikes in Somalia may have killed the leader of the Islamic extremist group al-Shabab, with a militant commander saying...
Stolen presidential escort car found abandoned in Uganda
Tororo, Uganda: The presidential escort car that was stolen in Nairobi has been recovered abandoned in Tororo, Uganda.Police said the BMW 735 series car...
‘Ghost workers’: Kenya biometric register launched
Kenya has started biometrically registering all civil servants in an attempt to remove "ghost workers" from the government's payroll.Employees who failed to register over...
U.S. military personnel rescued at sea after helicopter crash near Djibouti
No one was seriously injured when a U.S. Marine helicopter crashed into the Arabian Sea Monday following training exercises in Djibouti, the U.S. Navy...
Mugabe back from begging trip in China with no cash
Harare - Robert Mugabe jets into Harare today from a begging trip in China only holding a bag of secretive agreements and signatures but...
Malema ‘banned’ from visiting Botswana
Cape Town - Julius Malema’s chances of visiting Botswana are looking slim after it emerged that the parliamentarian is essentially “banned” from visiting the...
Military coup under way in Lesotho
Military units in Lesotho have surrounded government and police buildings and gunfire has been heard in the small mountainous southern African kingdom.Speaking to Al...
Sudan Ministry denies Ebola case in West Darfur
EL GENEINA - The Minister of Health Affairs for the Darfur Regional Authority, Firdos Abdel Rahman Yousif, has denied reports of the deadly Ebola...