Namibians protest against rhino poaching

ZOO PARK was fittingly the venue for Namibia’s first anti-rhino poaching protest, bringing together more than 60 demonstrators fighting the cause of the threatened...

80 U.S. troops deployed in Chad will help search for abducted...

The United States deployed 80 members of its armed forces to Chad to help in the search for the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls, the White...

Malian army retreats from Kidal again

Bamako - Malian soldiers retreated from the northern town of Kidal on Wednesday after heavy gun battles with ethnic Tuareg separatists, a major setback...

Zimbabwe to evict Tongaat-owned farms invaders

About 600 families who settled uninvited on farms owned by South African sugar producer Tongaat Hulett in southeastern Zimbabwe will be evicted, Rural Resettlement...

30 civilians killed by Boko Haram attacks near Chibok

Kano - Two attacks by Boko Haram gunmen killed 30 people near Chibok, the northeast Nigerian town where the Islamists kidnapped more than 200...

Bombs in Jos, Nigeria kills 46 and injures 45 more

Jos - Twin car bombings killed 46 people on Tuesday at a crowded market in the central Nigerian city of Jos, as emergency workers...

Bombs in Nigeria ‘brought entire buildings down’

Lagos - Twin car bombings in central Nigeria killed at least 118 people and brought entire buildings down on Tuesday, in the latest affront...

Zimbabwe willing to compensate white farmers

Information, Media and Broadcasting Services minister Jonathan Moyo yesterday said government was willing to compensate white farmers who were displaced during the land reform...

Somali Militants Kill 12 in Kenya Border Ambush

Kenyan officials say Somali militants have killed 12 people, including three police reservists, in a border ambush. A spokesman for the militant group al-Shabab claimed...

Heavy fighting erupts in Darfur Sudan

Khartoum - Heavy fighting erupted in El Fasher on Tuesday, residents said, breaking an uneasy calm in the second most populous city of Sudan's...

Suicide bomb attack leaves five dead in Kano, Nigeria

Blame for the explosion in mainly Christian area likely to fall on Islamic militant group Boko Haram. A bomb blast ripped through a street...

South Sudan faces ‘crisis levels of hunger’

War-torn South Sudan faces a catastrophic "tipping point" amid famine and genocide warnings, an aid agency has stated, as the conflict entered its fifth...