Kenya bus blasts leave dead and wounded in Nairobi

Deadly explosions ripped through two passenger buses in Nairobi, Kenya's capital, on Sunday, killing at least three people and injuring a number of others. Kenyan...

South Sudan crisis: Bentiu government offensive falters

South Sudan troops trying to recapture the oil hub of Bentiu from rebels have been forced back amid heavy gunfire, a BBC correspondent says. Government...

Deadly Attacks Heighten Tension in Egypt

CAIRO — Four separate bombings in Egypt killed at least five people on Friday in a sharp escalation of militant violence just weeks before...

Deadly Blasts Hit Kenyan Coastal City

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — At least three people were killed in a grenade blast in one of two explosions Saturday along the coast of...

Somalia unrest: Deadly blast in Mogadishu

At least six people have been killed in a bomb explosion in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Islamist militant group al-Shabab said it carried out the...

Abuja Blast: How they paid us N11bn to attack – Boko...

Can the N-Delta model stop the insurgents? In what is turning out to be a DOUBLE WAMMY for residents of the Federal Capital Territory,...

Nigeria: ‘We live in fear of Boko Haram’

The world is waking up to Boko Haram. More than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped from the classes last month remain missing. A car bomb in...

South Sudan crisis: Rivals to meet for peace talks

South Sudan's president has agreed to hold direct talks with his rival aimed at ending the conflict in the country, US Secretary of State...

Nigerian schoolgirls trafficked to neighbouring countries

Dozens of schoolgirls abducted by Islamist fighters in Nigeria have been trafficked to neighbouring countries and forced to marry their kidnappers, it was reported...

Fresh Abuja blast kills 30

Barely three weeks after a bomb blast killed over 71 persons in Nyanya, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, another explosion claimed...

Gunmen kill 15 in raid on Central African Republic border town

Gunmen killed about 15 people, including children, in an attack on a town in Central African Republic near the border with Chad, a local...

Civil War, late rains spark Somalia `crisis` warning

War and delayed rains in Somalia are putting thousands of lives at risk, especially in areas where African Union troops are battling Islamist extremists...