PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia: Items resembling an emergency slide, plane door and other objects were spotted in the sea during an aerial search on Tuesday for...
Cameroon’s government said Monday that it had begun airstrikes against Nigerian Islamic extremists to dislodge about 1,000 fighters who seized the Achigachia military base on...
A barge carrying a shipment of food destined for thousands of people in South Sudan has crossed over from neighbouring Sudan, reopening a long-closed river...
A leader with the Islamic extremist group al-Shabaab, who had a $3 million US bounty on his head, surrendered in Somalia, a Somali intelligence official...
Photographer: Michael Gottschalk/Photothek via Getty Images President Goodluck Jonathan’s attempt to end the subsidies in January 2012 sparked a… The tumbling oil prices that have...
Nigeria police arrest 13-year-old after she leaves suicide vest in taxi unwilling to become Boko Haram’s suicide bomber. A 13-year-old says her father gave her...
Attack on AU headquarters wounds three African Union soldiers and one civilian. Between 15 and 20 attackers were involved MOGADISHU – Three African Union soldiers...
Emergency personnel try to contain a fire on 18 December 2014 at a warehouse at the main humanitarian logistics base in Conakry, Guinea, which contained...
The United Nations refugee agency voiced concern today over the “deteriorating situation” facing more than 400 members of a Muslim minority group trapped by the...
The International Monetary Fund, IMF, is forecasting that Nigeria’s growth rate would slow to about 5 percent in 2015 as falling oil prices cut revenues...
Preliminary official results have still to be released by election authorities [AP] Polls have closed in Tunisia’s elections, the third in the last two months in...
Egyptian authorities on Saturday released 51 Palestinians who had been detained in the North Sinai city of El Arish after they attempted to travel to...
South Sudanese opposition forces killed at least 11 civilians and rape others in what amounted to war crimes, the United Nations mission in South Sudan...
Some energy analysts have challenged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to push for the passage of a law that demands companies in the extractive sector...