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...

Mali ‘at war’ with Tuareg rebels after intense battles

Mali's prime minister, Moussa Mara, has said his country is now "at war" with Tuareg separatists , following a battle between government forces and...

Nigerian Boko Haram crisis: Kano suicide attack

A suicide blast in a street full of bars and restaurants in the northern Nigerian city of Kano has killed four people, police say. One...

US to cut Nairobi embassy staff levels over terror threats

Nairobi: The United States said Saturday it was preparing cut staff levels at its Nairobi embassy because of the mounting threat of attacks in...

Mugabe on his way to another ‘routine eye check-up’ in Singapore

Barely a week after official threats to criminalize any discussion on President Robert Mugabe’s health, the ageing leader has flown out to Singapore with...

Boko Haram believed to be behind Cameroon attack

Yaounde - A Chinese national was killed and 10 others were feared kidnapped after an overnight attack in northern Cameroon believed to have been...

Fierce clashes in Libya’s Benghazi city

Benghazi - Fierce clashes erupted in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi Friday between Islamists and forces led by a retired general seeking to purge...

Zimbabwean woman brutally beaten in attack near Guruve farm

The death of a young Zimbabwean woman, who was brutally beaten in an attack on her and her father near their Guruve farm, has...

Ten confirmed dead, more than 70 wounded in Gikomba blasts

Nairobi - Ten people have been killed and over 70 wounded in two explosions at the busy Gikomba market area in Nairobi, a hospital...

Slain French journo’s body repatriated from CAR

Paris - The body of French photojournalist Camille Lepage, who died in a shoot-out in the Central African Republic, was flown back to France...