Forces in Ethiopia’s Tigray region said troops from neighboring Eritrea started a full-scale offensive on Tuesday and heavy fighting was...
CAIRO – Flooding across Sudan has killed at least 20 people over the past week, Sudanese officials announced Thursday, raising the official death-toll from the floods...
A small plane carrying three crew and some cargo failed to reach its destination of Kasese airport in Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday and searches...
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO – A suspected jihadi roadside bomb has hit a convoy in northern Burkina Faso, killing at least 35 people and injuring dozens more. The...
NAIROBI, KENYA – Kenya’s Supreme Court has unanimously rejected challenges to the official results of the presidential election and upheld Deputy President William Ruto’s narrow win...
HARARE, ZIMBABWE – The death toll from a measles outbreak in Zimbabwe has risen to almost 700 children, the country’s health ministry has said. Some are...
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The United Nations says “famine is at the door” in Somalia with “concrete indications” famine will occur later this year in the southern...
Nigerian gunmen have released four Catholic nuns abducted early this week in southeast Nigeria’s Imo state, police said Wednesday. Kidnappings by criminal gangs are frequent in...
The number of civilians killed in a 30-hour siege by al-Shabaab extremists at a hotel in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu has climbed to 21, Health Minister Ali...
Two pilots who fell asleep while flying an Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet from Sudan to Ethiopia on August 15 have been suspended pending an investigation, state...
CAIRO – A fire ripped through a church in the Egyptian capital of Cairo on Sunday sending huge amounts of thick black smoke into the air...