A UN report says there is "ample evidence" that both sides in the conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR)…
At least 250 prisoners in the Democratic Republic of Congo have escaped in a mass jailbreak at dawn in Bukavu,…
Suspected Boko Haram militants have launched an attack in a village near the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing about…
Leaders of the G7 industrial nations meeting in Brussels say they are prepared to impose further sanctions on Russia over…
Some 208 people have now died from the Ebola virus in Guinea after a deadly spike in recent days, world…
South Africa's ranking as worst in the world for its maths and science education is "a state of emergency", the…
Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni and the country’s Prime Minister John Patrick Amama Mbabazi on Tuesday joined hundreds of thousands of…
Nigerian police have banned public protests in the capital Abuja for the release of more than 200 schoolgirls seized by…
At least 14 people have been killed in a bomb attack on a bar that was screening a televised football…
Sudanese authorities are to free a woman who was sentenced to death for having abandoned the Islamic faith, a foreign…