Africa
Contradicting WHO, Sierra Leone official says Ebola may have reached peak
The Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, which has been surging in recent weeks, may have reached its peak and could be on the verge of slowing down, Sierra...
Sierra Leone Ebola workers dump bodies in salary protest
Burial workers in Sierra Leone have dumped bodies in the street outside a hospital in protest at authorities’ failure to pay bonuses for handling...
Rising Ebola cases in Sierra Leone sets U.N. off course
The U.N. Ebola Emergency Response Mission will not fully meet its Dec. 1 target for containing the virus due to escalating numbers of cases in Sierra Leone,...
31 killed and dozens missing in Morocco flash floods
Flash flooding in southern Morocco has reportedly killed at least 31 people, with many others still missing.
Kenya military ‘kills 100 Shabab militants’ linked to bus attack that killed 28
Kenya’s deputy president Sunday denounced the killing of 28 bus passengers by Islamic extremists and said the nation’s military responded by...
Landmark Tunisian presidential election seen heading for run-off
Tunisians voted on Sunday to pick their first directly elected president, with the two major parties expecting a run-off as the final step in the North...
Boko Haram kills 48 fish vendors in northeast Nigeria
Boko Haram gunmen have killed 48 fish vendors in Nigeria’s restive Borno State, near the border with Chad, the head of the fish traders association...
Pistorius may have bent the rules during first birthday behind bars
Oscar Pistorius, serving a five-year prison sentence for killing his girlfriend, received a long visit from his brother and sister for his 28th birthday...
Tunisians head to polls to elect first new president since revolution
Tunisians are going to the polls Sunday in their first presidential election since the 2011 revolution that sparked the Arab Spring, a ballot set to round...
Al Shabab gunmen execute 28 non-Muslims in Kenya bus attack
Somalia’s al Shabaab Islamists said they staged an attack in Kenya on Saturday in which gunmen ordered non-Muslims off a bus and shot 28 dead, while...
Bandits in Guinea make off with vials of suspected Ebola-contaminated blood
It was a highway robbery but the bandits got more than they bargained for when they stopped a taxi in Guinea and made off with blood samples that are believed...
Burkina army strongman formally hands power to civilian leader
The army strongman in charge of Burkina Faso since the ouster of veteran leader Blaise Compaore three weeks ago formally handed power to interim civilian...
Uganda suspends wildlife officials after tonne of ivory stolen from vault
Uganda’s Wildlife Authority (UWA) has suspended five top officials after a tonne of seized ivory worth over a million dollars vanished from government...
Nigerian army claims the recapture of Chibok, abducted girls’ hometown
The Nigerian army says it has regained control of Chibok, the northeastern town where more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped by Islamic extremists more...
Bodies of 74 South Africans killed in Lagos church collapse flown home
A cargo plane carrying the remains of 74 South Africans killed in a building collapse in Nigeria landed in Pretoria on Sunday, two months after the accident...
Second wave: Mali in race against time to contain Ebola outbreak recurrence
Mali is trying to trace as many as 343 people linked to confirmed and probable Ebola victims in an effort to control its second Ebola outbreak.
Boko Haram seizes hometown of kidnapped schoolgirls
Islamic extremists in Nigeria have seized Chibok, forcing thousands of people to flee the town where insurgents kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls in April,...
Liberia lifts emergency on Ebola virus, but war on epidemic far from over
Liberia lifted its state of emergency Thursday, announcing huge gains in the fight against Ebola as Africa pinned its hopes on trials for a “miracle...
Mali battles Ebola outbreak as African death toll passes 5,000
Mali scrambled Wednesday to prevent a major Ebola epidemic after the deaths of an Islamic cleric and a nurse, as the official death toll in the worst epidemic...
Suicide bomb in Nigeria kills almost 50 students, Boko Haram suspected
A suicide bomber disguised as a student set off explosives in a school assembly in Potiskum, Nigeria on Monday, killing almost 50.
Suicide bomb blast kills 48 students at Nigerian school assembly
A suicide bomber has struck at a school in northeast Nigeria killing 48 students, the AP news agency is reporting.
Burkina Faso talks end with agreement on plan for return to civilian rule
Opposition parties, civil society groups and religious leaders adopted a plan on Sunday for a transitional authority to guide Burkina Faso to elections,...
Africa sets up $28 million Ebola crisis fund
Regional business leaders have partnered with the African Union (AU) and African Development Bank to set up a crisis fund that will help areas hit by the...
Morocco rejects African Nations Cup hosting over Ebola fears
The future of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations (CAF) is now in jeopardy, after Morocco failed to meet a deadline to confirm it will go ahead with the hosting...
Two guards killed as swordsman storms Sudan’s presidential palace
A sword-wielding man killed two Sudanese soldiers on Saturday before being shot dead as he tried to enter the palace where President Omar al-Bashir has...
Burkina Faso politicians meet to decide on transitional leader
Opposition leaders met on Thursday in Burkina Faso to establish ground rules for a transitional government and what they expect from its leader.
West African presidents call for one-year transition in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso’s political parties and civil society leaders on Wednesday agreed in crisis talks that the country’s political transition should...
African presidents tell Burkina Faso military to hand power back to civilians
African leaders met in Burkina Faso today to pressure the army into keeping its promise to hand power back to civilians within a fortnight after the fall...
Thousands break Ebola quarantine to find food
Thousands of people in Sierra Leone are being forced to violate Ebola quarantines to find food because deliveries are not reaching them, aid agencies said.
Burkina Faso pledges ‘consensus’ govt after pressure from African Union
Burkina Faso’s army will quickly cede power to a transitional government and appoint a new head of state, the country’s interim President Isaac...
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