Africa
Cliffhanger in early results for presidential election in oil-rich Nigeria
In a cliffhanger of an election, early returns Monday night from half the states showed Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and former military dictator...
Counting continues while election tensions prompt protests, curfew in Nigeria
Nigeria’s electoral commission began counting votes in hotly contested presidential elections Monday as the United States and Britain warned that...
Divided Nigeria city awaits results of tense presidential vote
Nigeria counted ballots in a closely fought general election Sunday after failures in controversial new technology pushed voting into a second day, with...
Boko Haram advance on northern city as Nigerians go to the polls
Suspected Boko Haram extremists attacked polling stations and destroyed election material in two northeastern towns, police said as Nigerians continued...
Top suspect in Tunis museum attack ‘killed’ as thousands join march
The leading suspect in the deadly attack on a Tunisian museum has been killed, the country’s prime minister has said.
Boko Haram kills 41, prevents hundreds voting in Nigeria
Boko Haram extremists killed 41 people, including a legislator, and scared hundreds of people from polling stations but millions voted across Nigeria Saturday...
Millions in Nigeria go to the polls as voting extended to Sunday after glitches
Nigerians have now until Sunday to vote in a presidential election that experts say is too close to call between President Goodluck Jonathan and former...
At least 9 dead as militants attack hotel in Somali capital
Al-Shabab militants blasted their way into a Mogadishu hotel on Friday and took up positions inside, killing at least nine people and exchanging fire with...
Nigerian army says it has ‘destroyed Boko Haram headquarters’
The Nigerian army reported on Friday that it destroyed the headquarters of Boko Haram after capturing the northeastern town of Gwoza from the Islamist...
Out-of-school children: Nigeria’s ticking time bomb
Bello Shehu is 12 years old. Under a scorching sun, he sells sachets of purified water to motorists caught in traffic jams in northern Nigeria’s...
Wild African elephants ‘will be extinct within decades’ warn conservationists
African elephants could be extinct in the wild within a few decades, experts warned on Monday at a major conservation summit in Botswana that highlighted...
Move over, Ebola: Measles is the deadly new threat facing Liberia’s young
As Liberia emerges from the worst Ebola outbreak in history, the slum-dwellers of Monrovia’s Peace Island ghetto are facing an even deadlier threat:...
Third Bardo museum gunman ‘is on the run’, Tunisia president says
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi has said a third attacker is still “on the run” following Wednesday’s attack on Bardo National Museum.
Tunisia arrests more than 20 in crackdown since museum attack
Tunisian authorities have arrested more than 20 suspected militants in a nationwide security crackdown since gunmen killed 23 people, mostly foreign tourists,...
100 bodies in Nigeria ‘mass grave’ in town taken from Boko Haram
Around 100 bodies were found Friday in a mass grave on the edge of a town in northeast Nigeria after it was freed from Boko Haram Islamists, a Chadian...
Tunisia arrest nine people after 24 die in gun attack at museum
Authorities have arrested nine people in connection with a gun attack at the Bardo Museum in Tunis that killed 22 people and two alleged attackers, a spokeswoman...
Amnesty warns on ‘seriously alarming’ Nigeria oil spills
Amnesty International said two major oil companies operating in Nigeria reported a combined 553 oil spills in 2014, a figure that qualifies as a national...
Violence against women rises in Ebola-hit nations
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa exacerbated violence against women and rolled back access to reproductive healthcare in the region.
Developing: At least 8 tourists killed in attack on Tunisian parliament
Gunmen attacked Tunisia’s parliament compound on Wednesday, killing at least eight tourists in museum on the grounds, Reuters reports.
Sierra Leone president sacks deputy for seeking asylum in U.S. embassy
Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma has sacked Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana for seeking asylum in a foreign embassy, a statement from the president’s...
Traditional healer leads South African police to 100 bodies in unmarked grave
A suspected mass burial site containing around 100 bodies has been unearthed at a sugarcane farm near the southestern port city of Durban in South Africa.
Gorillas vs oil: DR Congo seeking way to explore at Virunga park
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has not abandoned plans to exploit possible oil reserves in Africa’s oldest nature reserve, Virunga national...
Sierra Leone vice president says requested asylum at U.S. embassy
Sierra Leone’s Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana said he had requested asylum at the U.S.
Measles cases seen almost doubling in Ebola epidemic countries
Measles cases could almost double in countries hardest hit by the West African Ebola outbreak as overwhelmed health systems are unable to maintain child...
TV reporter and crew mugged during live broadcast in Johannesburg
Armed men have been caught on camera mugging a journalist as he was about to give a live TV report in South Africa.
Overshadowed by IS, Somalia’s Shebab loses jihadist lustre
Eclipsed by newer, more bloodthirsty and media-savvy global jihadists, Somalia’s Shebab militants are struggling to stay relevant. On Saturday the...
Seven held in Tanzania over latest albino attack
Police in Tanzania said Tuesday they have arrested seven suspects over a vicious weekend assault in which a six-year-old albino boy’s hand was hacked...
'200 Boko Haram fighters killed' as military reclaim Nigerian town of Damasak
Troops from Chad and Niger retook the northeastern Nigerian town of Damasak on Monday as part of regional efforts to combat the Islamists who have pledged...
At least 5 dead in ‘terrorist attack’ on restaurant in Mali capital
Militants killed five people including a French citizen and a Belgian citizen in a gun attack on a restaurant in Mali’s capital in the early hours...
South Sudan peace talks collapse, suspended indefinitely
South Sudan’s warring leaders failed to reach a deal to end more than a year of civil war, mediators said, with the latest collapse in peace talks...
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