Africa
Niger detains agriculture minister over suspected child trafficking
Niger’s agriculture minister has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in a baby-trafficking network, a spokesman for his political party said...
Tripoli airport changes hands between Libyan militias
Forces from the Libyan city of Misrata on Saturday seized Tripoli’s main airport after more than a month of fighting with a rival group, a Misrata...
Rebel-held gold mine collapse in Central African Republic kills 25
At least 25 people died when an illegally operated gold mine collapsed for the second time in two years in the Central African Republic, police said Saturday.
Last Ebola-free region of Liberia falls to virus as new cases emerge in Nigeria
The Ebola outbreak continues to spread in West Africa, with 142 more cases recorded, bringing the new total to 2,615 the World Health Organization said...
Violence erupts in Liberia over Ebola quarantine protests
Violence erupted in an Ebola quarantine zone in Liberia’s capital Wednesday as authorities struggled to contain the epidemic, with new suspected...
100,000 elephants killed in Africa, study finds
Poachers killed an estimated 100,000 elephants across Africa between 2010 and 2012, a huge spike in the continent’s death rate of the world’s...
Ebola-hit countries must screen all departing travellers, WHO orders
Authorities in countries affected by Ebola should check people departing at international airports, seaports and major border crossings, and stop anyone...
Armed men attack Liberian Ebola clinic as Guinea caters to health refugees
Armed men attacked an Ebola isolation ward in the Liberian capital of Monrovia on Saturday night, prompting 29 patients to flee the facility, witnesses...
Why this widely unheralded bank bailout proves taxpayers are still at risk
South Africa’s decision to rescue a small lender last week—a bank neither “too big” nor “too interconnected” to fail—shows...
Liberian president apologises to health workers for Ebola toll
Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf apologised on Saturday for the high death toll among the country’s healthcare workers who have fought...
Masked men assassinate Tripoli’s police chief; Libya edges closer to civil war
Libya’s Interior Ministry has said that the capital’s police chief was killed as fighting continued for control of Tripoli airport.
Egyptian killings ‘planned at highest levels’, says human rights watchdog
The killing of more than 1,000 protesters last year in Egypt probably amounted to crimes against humanity, a report has found.
Party time: Uganda gay community celebrates after brutal law overturned
Dancing and waving rainbow-coloured flags, Ugandan activists held their first gay pride rally Saturday since the overturning of a tough anti-homosexuality...
Egypt bans FJP, the Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing
An Egyptian court on Saturday ordered the dissolution of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the political wing of the already banned Muslim Brotherhood...
Oscar Pistorius murder trial concludes as verdict is set for September 11th
A verdict in the high profile murder trial of sports star Oscar Pistorius has been set for September 11, after lawyers wrapped up five months of drama-filled...
Pistorius ‘an appalling witness who dropped baton of truth’, prosecutor says
The prosecution in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial has summed up its case by insisting the athlete committed premeditated murder involving a “deliberate...
Nigeria confirms second Ebola case as doctor who treated first case
Nigerian authorities on Monday confirmed a second case of Ebola in Africa’s most populous country, an alarming setback as officials across the region...
Africa’s ‘youth bulge’ could transform the continent
One result in a new survey called the “Global Youth Wellbeing Index” hardly fits a common perception of Africa.
Nigeria confirms second Ebola victim as doctor who treated virus-hit patient
Nigerian authorities today said that a doctor in Lagos who treated a Liberian victim of Ebola has contracted the virus, the second confirmed case in sub-Saharan...
Deals and funding worth billions to be announced at Africa Summit
The United States will announce nearly US$1 billion in new business deals, increase funding for peacekeeping and commit billions of dollars to expanding...
Mandela’s ‘starving’ cows rescued by local officials
Livestock feed for nearly 100 oxen belonging to the family of Nelson Mandela was delivered by the Eastern Cape provincial government in South Africa on...
Roadside bomb wipes out female street sweepers in Somali capital
Three women were killed in the Somali capital on Sunday and seven others were wounded when a remotely detonated bomb exploded in a busy market, police...
Obama hosts Africa summit with an eye on legacy
President Barack Obama is gathering nearly 50 African heads of state in Washington for an unprecedented summit aimed in part at building his legacy on...
Libya parliament holds emergency meeting as evacuations continue
Libya is descending into a civil war spiral that is “much worse” than the unrest that toppled its dictator Muammer Qadhafi in 2011, residents...
Libya Islamic militias declare control of Benghazi as democratic dream fades
Libya is in more danger now than at any time since the 2011 uprising and war that toppled dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
Fight against deadly Ebola virus hampered as infected patients fear ‘witchcraft’
Many infected patients in Sierra Leone are refusing to seek treatment for the Ebola virus over fears the disease is the work of witchcraft, as the president...
At least 33 dead, including children, in crowd rush at Guinea beach rap concert
Hundreds of people leaving a late-night rap concert on a beach in Guinea rushed to leave through a single exit, creating a stampede that killed at least...
Pilots of Air Algerie jet asked to turn back
France said on Monday the pilots of the Air Algerie passenger plane that crashed in Mali, killing all 118 people on board, had asked to turn back.
Libya calls for world’s help to extinguish massive airport oil depot fire
A fire at the oil depot for the airport in Libya’s capital raged out of control Monday after being struck in the crossfire of warring militias battling...
Boko Haram kidnaps wife of Cameroon’s vice prime minister
The wife of Cameroon’s Vice Prime Minister Amadou Ali has been kidnapped and at least three other people have been killed in an attack by Boko Haram...
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