Africa News

Abidjan - At least eight people, including five civilians, were killed when gunmen believed to have come from Liberia seized a border village in...

Tanzanian police have arrested two alleged witch doctors after an albino woman was hacked to death for body parts, a rights group says. Munghu Lugata,...

Hotoro, Nigeria -- Residents of three villages in northeastern Nigeria took security into their own hands this week, repelling attacks by Boko Haram...

Juba - Warring forces in South Sudan battled on Thursday, trading blame for breaking a ceasefire as the civil war entered its sixth month...

Bangui - At least 31 people, many of them civilians, were killed in clashes between Christian and Muslim fighters in Central African Republic this...

Two Nigerian journalists were harassed, brutalised and detained for lack of good reasons by South African police in Johannesburg on Tuesday afternoon. South Africa Correspondent...

Antananarivo - Twenty-two people have been killed and hundreds of houses destroyed in violence sparked by cattle rustling in the Indian Ocean island of...

Bauchi, Nigeria - The villagers knew an attack was coming, so they used the dark of night to ambush the suspected Boko Haram militants,...

Yaounde, Cameroon — Kidnappings, an influx of refugees and an increase fighting and criminal acts in Cameroon's border communities have raised concerns about Nigeria's...

Abuja - Nigeria has issued an international arrest warrant for a British-born army deserter it suspects plotted two bombings in the capital that killed...

Cape Town – Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked militant group al-Shabaab has reportedly praised Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist group for its fight against those who "targeted" Islam. This...

A French photojournalist has been killed while on a reporting assignment in conflict-torn Central African Republic, probably in an ambush, French President Francois Hollande...