7 Ebola cases confirmed in Sierra Leone

Freetown - Sierra Leone on Friday said that it had confirmed seven cases of Ebola and suspects dozens more amid fears the deadly epidemic...

Al-shabaab raids village on Somali – Ethiopian border leaving 39 dead

Nearly 40 people are dead after al-Shabaab militants attacked a village on the border between Ethiopia and Somalia. The governor of Somalia’s Bakool region, Mohamed...

The hollowness of Nigeria’s prosperity

The West wanted to believe in a boom but now the world has been forced to see Nigeria’s misery, says Adrienne Klasa. It is...

Two protesters killed in CAR capital in escalations in violence

Two people were killed during anti-government protests in the Central African Republic on Friday following a wave of violent clashes across the capital Bangui. Troops...

Kenyan ethnic clashes claims 11 lives

Nairobi - At least 11 people have been killed and several others wounded in fighting between rival clans in Wajir in Kenya's remote northeast,...

Zimbabwe to change black empowerment law

Harare - Zimbabwe's cabinet has ordered that a controversial equity law which forces foreign companies to cede a majority shareholding to local investors be...

Gunmen attack police at home of Tunisian interior minister, killing ...

Tunis - Four Tunisian police officers were killed in a terrorist attack overnight on the home of Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou in the...

4 Abducted girls in Nigeria escaped Bokko Haram militants

Four of the more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls abducted last month from a village school by the Boko Haram insurgent group have escaped their...

Boko Haram insurgents attack Borno villages and kills 48

Gunmen believed to be members of the Boko Haram terror Islamist group on Wednesday morning attacked the town of Ngurmuji in Marte Local Government...

Attacks on white commercial farmers still rife in Zimbabwe

The Centre for the Advancement of Dialogue and Democracy (CADD) condemns in strongest terms the endless violent and racial attacks on white commercial farmers...

Gambella Nilotes Army Condemns Killing Oromos for Their Land

Press Release 15th May 2014, Gambella Ethiopian Government Must Stop Killing Oromos for their Land. Gambella Nilotes United Movement/Army (GNUM/A) condemns the mass killing perpetuated by the...

Cameroon and Chad deploy troops in war against Boko Haram

Cameroon and Chad have sent a thousand troops to their borders with Nigeria to fight the Islamist group Boko Haram. The troops were deployed...