Africa

No more survivors to be found from Italy migrant shipwreck, rescuers say
Rescuers have found no more survivors from the shipwreck of a boat in which 400 migrants are believed to have drowned, the Italian coastguard said Wednesday.
400 migrants die in shipwreck off Libya, survivors say
Up to 400 illegal migrants trying to reach Europe died after their boat capsized off the Libyan coast on Sunday, said survivors who were saved and brought...
At least 10 dead in al-Shabab attack on Somali government office
Militants, claiming to be a part of the al-Shabab wing of al-Qaida, used a car bomb to blast their way into a building that housed the higher education...
African nations offer to repatriate expats in South Africa following attacks
Somalia and Malawi have both begun the process of tracing expatriates in South Africa and offering them safe passage home following escalating attacks...
Still not back: Boko Haram insurgency uproots 800,000 children, says UNICEF
Around 800,000 children have been driven from their homes as a result of fighting between Nigerian forces and Boko Haram, according to a new UNICEF report.
800,000 children forced from homes by Boko Haram violence
The children’s drawings show men with guns, a coffin, a car exploding. One picture has stick-like figures of eight siblings missed by their teenage...
Bombs explode, gunmen attack foreign embassies in Libya
A bomb exploded outside the Moroccan embassy in Libya’s capital, a security official said Monday, just hours after a gun attack on the building housing...
Kenya asks the UN to shut down refugee camp for Somalis
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has three months to close a refugee camp in eastern Kenya and send the more than 400,000 Somalis living...
Exploding transformer at Kenyan university triggers deadly stampede
One Kenyan student died and more than 100 others were injured after an exploding electricity transformer caused a stampede on Sunday.
Kenya orders UN to move massive Somali refugee camp
Kenya has given the United Nations three months to remove a camp housing more than half a million Somali refugees, as part of a get-tough response to the...
Nigerians vote for state governors and assemblies as tensions rise in south
Nigerians were on Saturday voting to choose new state governors and local assemblies, with the main opposition party tipped to build on its victory in...
Egypt sentences Muslim Brotherhood leader and 13 other members to death
An Egyptian court sentenced Mohamed Badie (pictured), the leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, and 13 other senior members of the group to death...
After attack and backlash, Kenya faces battle to win over Muslims
Days after Islamists killed 148 people at Garissa university, Kenya’s president held out an olive branch to Muslims and urged them to join Nairobi...
South African university removes statue of colonialist
Hundreds of South African students cheered loudly Thursday as a crane lifted the decades-old statue of a British colonialist — celebrating the end...
Rwanda welcomes France’s declassification of genocide documents
Rwanda’s justice minister Johnston Busingye has welcomed France’s declassification of documents relating to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which...
Kenyans hold march for national security after massacre
Kenyans marched demanding greater national security Tuesday following last week’s massacre by Somalia’s Shebab Islamists, ahead of a candlelit...
Marginalisation, mismanagement provoked Kenya massacre: experts
Kenya’s government says the university massacre of 148 people was a “surprise” that could happen anywhere: but experts say decades of...
Kenya bombs al-Shabab camps in Somalia after student massacre
The Kenyan military says it has launched air strikes against Islamic militants in Somalia following an extremist attack on a college that killed 148 people. Colonel...
Kenya says government official’s son was among gunmen in Garissa attack
One of the gunmen who slaughtered 148 people at a college in Kenya was identified Sunday as the law-school-educated son of a Kenyan government official,...
After Islamist attack, armed guards shield Kenyan churches
After al Shabaab gunmen massacred nearly 150 people at a Kenyan university on Thursday, singling out Christians for point-blank executions, churches in...
Five arrested over Kenya massacre as al Shabaab threatens more bloodhsed
Five people have been arrested in connection with the massacre of 148 people at Kenya’s Garissa University, as the al Shabaab terror group threatened...
Shock, defiance in Kenya after Shebab massacre 148 at university
Video has emerged of the massacre at a university campus in north-eastern Kenya in which 147 people were killed by Islamist extremists.
Kenya families mourn Garissa victims as video emerges of terror attack
Video has emerged of the massacre at a university campus in north-eastern Kenya in which 147 people were killed by Islamist extremists.
Yemen rebels quit Aden palace after air raids: senior official
Rebel forces withdrew from Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi’s palace in his former southern stronghold Aden early Friday after overnight air...
15 killed and Christian hostages taken as gunmen storm Kenyan university
An “unknown number of student hostages” have been taken by masked terrorists who have killed at least 15 people after storming a university...
14 killed and hostages taken as masked gunmen storm Kenyan university
An “unknown number of student hostages” have been taken by masked terrorists who have killed at least 14 people after storming a university...
14 killed and hostages taken as masked gunmen storm Kenyan university
An “unknown number of student hostages” have been taken by masked terrorists who have killed at least 14 people after storming a university...
Masked gunmen attack Garissa university in northern Kenya
Masked gunmen have attacked a university in the town of Garissa in northern Kenya, police said, as ongoing gunfire could be heard from the university premisis.Witnesses...
Israel announces plan to force African migrants to ‘third country’
Israel is set to force illegal African migrants to choose between leaving to a “safe third-party” country in Africa or face imprisonment, the...
Muhammadu Buhari claims poll victory in Nigeria as opposition cries foul
Nigeria’s main opposition on Tuesday claimed victory in the country’s tense general election as former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari pulled...

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