Police in Nigeria say they are investigating a reported mass abduction in the capital Abuja. Kidnappings for ransom by armed...
At least 40 people have been killed in clashes in the western Ethiopian city of Gambella, after members of armed...
The United Nations has expressed grave concerns about the treatment of indigenous Maasai people in Tanzania, after clashes broke out...
Two police officers in Mozambique have been sentenced to jail - one for six years, the other for two years...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has announced it has dropped criminal proceedings against alleged war criminal, Mahmoud Mustafa Busayf al-Werfalli,...
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has called for the deployment of an East African force to restore security in the troubled...
Government employees in Tunisia are to stage a nationwide strike in the latest challenge to the rule of President Kais...
The death toll from a weekend jihadist attack in northern Burkina Faso has risen to 86, authorities have said. The...
Conflict and disease outbreaks are pushing food prices up in South Sudan, according to the UN Office for the Coordination...
Police in Zimbabwe say they have arrested a man on suspicion of murdering an opposition activist whose mutilated body was...