The U.S. military said on Tuesday it had killed nine militants in an air strike in southern Somalia this week during a battle between U.S. and...
Libya has closed the only functioning airport in the capital Tripoli again after rockets were fired in its direction, officials said Tuesday, days after flights had...
Ethiopian authorities arrested more than 1,200 people after violence erupted in and around the capital this month, a senior police official said, three times more than...
Nigerian troops repelled another attempt by Boko Haram militants to overrun a military base in northeast Nigeria, military and civilian sources told AFP Tuesday. Dozens of...
The World Health Organization said Tuesday that an Ebola outbreak in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo could worsen rapidly because of attacks by armed groups, community...
Torrential rains and flooding in northeastern Tunisia have left at least four dead, including two sisters, the Interior Ministry said Sunday. A 60-year-old man drowned near...
A cholera outbreak in northeastern Nigeria has claimed nearly 100 lives over the past two weeks, the United Nations said Saturday. More than 3,000 cholera cases...
At least 42 people have died after a ferry carrying hundreds of people capsized on Lake Victoria, Tanzania. One official told the Reuters news agency the...
An Egyptian court has accepted a defense motion to remove a judge who ordered the detention of former President Hosni Mubarak’s two sons in connection with...
A further one million children are at risk of famine in Yemen, Save the Children has warned. Rising food prices and the falling value of the...
