Africa

  Several soldiers have been killed and others injured in two separate attacks in central Mali, the army said in a statement late Tuesday. Unidentified gunmen raided the...

  The severed heads of the resistance fighters were displayed in a market square first. Then they were shipped back to private collections in Paris. For decades, they...

  Libyan telecoms investor LAP GreenN is threatening to seize Zambia’s international assets because it says the government owes it US$380 million. The debt dates back to Zambia’s...

  President Donald Trump has informed his top advisers that he wants to withdraw US troops from Somalia, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday. Citing people familiar with the matter,...

  Eleven families were on Tuesday left homeless after Kenya Railways officials evicted them from the corporation's houses. The incident placed a senior Kenya Railways (KR) official on the spot...

  South Sudan has made no concrete steps toward national healing more than two years after the end of a civil war that killed nearly 400,000 people and...

  A few days to the conduct of the Ondo State governorship election, an NGO, SING Nigeria, has condemned the rising violence and money politics playing out in...

  Malawian president Lazarus Chakwera has since retreated on his promise to create one million jobs during his first term saying the government can only create 200 000....

  The European Union governments on Monday expressed support for Nigeria’s candidate for the position of the director-general of the World Trade Organisation, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as the...

  Tanzania’s main opposition group — the Party for Democracy and Progress, or Chadema — is speaking out against a call for a temporary suspension of the campaign...