Africa

Liberia quarantines an area where new Ebola case appeared
Liberian authorities on Tuesday quarantined two households after the corpse of a 17-year-old boy was found with Ebola, sparking fears the West African...
Setback for ‘Ebola free’ Liberia as 17-year-old dies of the disease
A Liberian has died of Ebola in the first recorded case since the country at the heart of an epidemic was declared free of the virus on May 9, Deputy Health...
Egypt’s state prosecutor killed by bomb attack in Cairo
Egypt’s official news agency reported the country’s state prosecutor died of wounds sustained in a bomb attack on his convoy in a Cairo suburb...
Tunisia police arrest suspects in connection with Sousse beach massacre
Tunisia’s interior minister has said a group of suspects associated with the beach resort gunman have been arrested by authorities.
Resistance against terrorism: Tunisians reclaim massacre beach
Tunisians have staged a demonstration on the beach where 38 people were gunned down last Friday.
Tunisia launches nationwide manhunt for attack accomplices
The student who massacred holidaymakers on a Tunisian beach and at a swank resort hotel acted alone during the attack but had accomplices who supported...
Extremists storm AU base in Somalia, leaving many dead
Islamic militants from the Al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab group attacked a remote African Union base in Somalia on Friday, causing many casualties, the AU mission...
Gunmen kill 28 tourists in attack on two Tunisian seaside hotels
At least 28 people of six different nationalities have been killed in an attack on a tourist hotel in the Tunisian beach resort of Sousse, an interior...
Gunmen kill 27 tourists in attack on two Tunisian hotels
At least 27 people have been killed in an attack on a tourist hotel in the Tunisian beach resort of Sousse, an interior ministry spokesman said on Friday.
S. Africa inquiry slams police operation that led to Marikana massacre
An inquiry into the police killings of 34 striking South African workers at a mine in 2012 has called for the officers involved to be investigated, claiming...
Burundi vice president flees,100 students seek refuge at U.S. embassy
Burundian students broke into the US embassy to escape police Thursday as one of the country’s vice presidents announced he had fled to Belgium,...
Rwanda slams London arrest of spy chief as ‘lunacy and unacceptable’
Rwanda’s foreign minister has criticised the arrest of the country’s spy chief, held in London in connection with war crimes allegations.
30 killed in northeast Nigeria by 2 girl suicide bombers
Two girls blew themselves up on Monday near a crowded mosque in northeast Nigeria’s biggest city, killing about 30 people, witnesses said.
Egypt court confirms ousted President Morsi’s death sentence
An Egyptian court on Tuesday confirmed the death sentence of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi over a mass prison break during the country’s...
Egyptian court upholds death sentence imposed on former President Morsi
An Egyptian court sentenced deposed President Mohamed Morsi to death on Tuesday over a mass jail break during the country’s 2011 uprising and issued...
Life and death for Morsi: Ex-Egypt President hit with two sentences
Egypt’s former president Mohammed Morsi has been sentenced to 25 years in jail for espionage, and has had a separate death sentence upheld by a court.
Sudan’s Al-Bashir dodges arrest as South Africa rebuffs ICC
South Africa rebuffed the International Criminal Court and its own judiciary as it let Sudanese President Umar al-Bashir dodge arrest on war crimes and...
Sudan president leaves South Africa despite high court order
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has left South Africa, a Sudan minister said on Monday, defying a Pretoria court order for him to remain in the country...
Sudan president leaves South African despite high court order
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has left South Africa, a Sudan minister said on Monday, defying a Pretoria court order for him to remain in the country...
Algeria gas plant jihadist Belmokhtar ‘killed in US strike’
A militant who launched a deadly attack on an Algerian gas plant has been killed by a US airstrike, Libya’s government has said.
Nigeria’s Buhari draws red line for regional anti-Boko Haram force
A new regional fighting force against Boko Haram will be headed by a Nigerian commander, the five-nation coalition agreed on Thursday, after talks on military...
Regional leaders meet in Nigeria to discuss driving out Boko Haram
Nigeria’s new President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday holds talks with regional leaders on Boko Haram, with hopes a new fighting force will help crush...
Jihadists change tactics to target Egypt Achilles heel: analysts
Wednesday’s narrowly avoided massacre of tourists at Egypt’s famed Karnak temple signalled a strategic change in a jihadist war on a government...
IS gains in Libya, Iraq as countries scramble with strategies
U.N.-brokered negotiations aimed at stemming Libya’s collapse into a failed state threatened to fall apart after militants from the North African...
UN presents Libyans with latest draft proposal for unity
The U.N. representative to Libya reconvened delegations from Libya’s rival governments on Monday to present the latest draft proposal for a unity...
Oscar Pistorius to be released from prison on Aug 21
Oscar Pistorius will be released from prison for good behavior on Aug. 21 and go under house arrest after serving just 10 months for killing girlfriend...
Oscar Pistorius set to be released on parole 10 months after being jailed
Oscar Pistorius is likely to be freed in August as he faces an appeal over his sentence for killing his girlfriend, a family member has said. The...
Students riot after Congo cancels leaked baccalaureate exams
Thousands of Congo Republic high school students rioted on Friday in three of the country’s biggest cities following a decision by the government...
Death toll up to 150 in Ghana gas station explosion, floods
Ghana’s president says the death toll from a gas station explosion in the capital and widespread flooding has increased to 150 people. John...
Death toll up to 150 in Ghana gas station explosion, floods
Ghana’s president says the death toll from a gas station explosion in the capital and widespread flooding has increased to 150 people. John...

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