Africa
Hundreds forced to flee as Cape Town fires devastate Table Mountain
Hundreds of people have been forced to leave their homes in the South African city of Cape Town because of wildfires. The fires have been burning for...
Jazz club burns down, but music perserveres in Ethiopia’s capital
In the Ethiopian capital city of Addis Ababa, the Jazzamba nightclub in the Taitu Hotel has fostered a resurgence of the Horn of Africa’s unique...
Two elephants to be slaughtered for Mugabe’s 91st birthday party
Zimbabwe’s controversial president Robert Mugabe is preparing for a lavish birthday party on Saturday at which 20,000 guests will feast on two young...
Two elephants slaughtered for Mugabe’s 91st birthday party
Zimbabwe’s controversial president Robert Mugabe is preparing for a lavish birthday party on Saturday at which 20,000 guests will feast on two young...
More than 25,000 Egyptians flee Libya after beheadings of Christians by IS
More than 25,000 Egyptians have returned from neighbouring Libya since the Islamic State group posted a video earlier this month of the beheadings of Christian...
Suicide bombers kill at least 26 across north Nigeria
Suicide bombers struck two bus stations in different parts of northern Nigeria on Tuesday, killing at least 26 people in attacks President Goodluck Jonathan...
'Come Back Home': 15,000 Egyptians flee Libya after warning
Almost 15,000 Egyptians have flocked home from war-torn Libya via the border crossing at Sallum, state media reported Monday, after Islamic State group...
Nearly 500 South African miners escape after fire
Nearly 500 miners who were trapped underground by a fire at a gold mine in South Africa on Sunday were brought to the surface safely, a spokeswoman for...
Girl suicide bomber kills five, wounds dozens in northeast Nigeria
A young girl with explosives strapped to her killed five people and wounded dozens at a security checkpoint outside a market in the northeast Nigerian...
Nigerian military claims recapture of Baga from Boko Haram
Nigerian forces backed by air strikes seized the northeastern border town of Baga from Islamist group Boko Haram on Saturday, the military said, a significant...
World’s oldest leader Mugabe triumphant ahead of birthday bash
The world’s oldest leader, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, turns 91 on Saturday with much to celebrate – even as critics condemn as “obscene”...
Islamic State bombers kill dozens in Libyan suicide attacks
Islamic State militants unleashed suicide bombings Friday in eastern Libya, killing at least 40 people in what the group said was retaliation for Egyptian...
Libya to UN Security Council: Lift arms embargo so we can fight IS
Libya’s foreign minister has demanded that the UN Security Council lift an arms embargo so his country can fight the Islamic State group as it establishes...
Libya to UN Security Council: Lift arms embargo to fight IS
Libya’s foreign minister on Wednesday demanded that the UN Security Council lift an arms embargo so his country can fight the Islamic State group...
Nigeria election boss rules out poll delay as army claims gains
Nigeria’s elections chief Wednesday ruled out any further postponement to upcoming presidential and parliamentary polls, despite Boko Haram vowing...
Nigeria rocked by multiple attacks in north and south
Two suicide attacks in northeast Nigeria killed at least 38 people Tuesday, after Boko Haram razed a town and as violence raged across the embattled region...
Egypt calls for UN-backed intervention against IS jihadists in Libya
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al Sisi has called for the UN Security Council to mandate an international intervention in Libya.
Boko Haram battle: African allies kill 86 militants, reclaim towns
African allies claim they’re making progress in the war against Boko Haram.
Cameroon army kills 86 Boko Haram militants
Cameroon’s army says it has killed 86 Boko Haram militants and detained 1,000 people suspected of links to the Islamist group, as central African...
EU brings Zimbabwe in from the cold after 13 years with $269m of cash aid
The European Union has given Zimbabwe $267 million, it said on Monday, the first time the bloc has given financial aid to the southern African nation’s...
Ebola cases prompt mini-quarantine in Sierra Leone capital
Sierra Leone imposed a quarantine in a fishing district of the capital city, Freetown, after at least five new Ebola cases were confirmed there, an official...
Boko Haram launches fierce attack on Nigerian city, warns against voting
Heavily armed Boko Haram militants attacked the northeastern Nigerian city of Gombe on Saturday but were later repelled, a government security source said.
Boko Haram launches first attack in Chad
Nigeria’s Boko Haram rebels carried out their first attack inside neighbouring Chad, targeting a village on the shores of Lake Chad as part of a...
Sierra Leone loses track of $3.3m in Ebola funds: audit
Sierra Leone has been criticised in a report presented to its parliament on Friday showing ministers lost track of more than $3 million in internal emergency...
Boko Haram attacks in northeast Nigeria kill 21 villagers
At least 21 people were killed in two separate Boko Haram attacks on villages near the key city of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria, a community leader and...
Egypt frees Al-Jazeera journalists on bail ahead of retrial for ‘spreading lies’
Al Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed have been freed on bail by an Egyptian court after spending more than a year behind bars. A judge...
Escaping Boko Haram, telling stories of Chibok girls
Some 10 months after the Chibok boarding school kidnapping in Nigeria and the #BringBackOurGirls global reaction, many children are still missing.
Gunmen in Central Africa Republic free kidnapped government minister
Gunmen in Central African Republic have freed the minister for youth and sport who was kidnapped in January, the minister’s spokesman said on Wednesday.
Amid Boko Haram attacks, Nigeria vote ‘will not be postponed further’
Islamist Boko Haram insurgents from Nigeria bombed a Niger border town and carried out attacks in neighbouring Cameroon, kidnapping a bus full of passengers,...
Nigeria delays presidential vote by six weeks over security fears
Nigeria’s presidential election was on Saturday postponed on security grounds, handing a potential lifeline to the ruling party as it battles a persistent...
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