Kenyan police forcibly detained dozens of demonstrators and a senator, AFP witnessed on Monday, firing tear gas into small peaceful rallies protesting recent alleged abductions that have enraged the country.
The sinking of a vessel carrying migrants in Moroccan waters on December 19 left 70 people missing, including 25 from Mali, that country鈥檚 government said on Thursday.
Around 125 people have been killed in three days of violent clashes across Mozambique amid opposition-led protests over the presidential election results, a non-governmental organisation said Thursday.
More than 1,500 prisoners escaped from a Maputo prison on Wednesday, taking advantage of the third day of unrest triggered by the controversial confirmation of the long-ruling Frelimo party as...
Famine has spread across war-torn Sudan and is projected to expand even further, a UN-backed assessment said on Tuesday, with refugee camps and displaced communities hit particularly hard.
Nigerian police on Sunday raised the total death toll from two stampedes at food distribution centres to 32.
A stampede at a school funfair in the southwestern Nigerian city of Ibadan has killed 35 children and seriously injured six others, police said on Thursday.
The international community does not grasp the seriousness of the crisis ravaging Sudan after more than a year and a half of civil war, a high-level UN official warned on Monday.
Human Rights Watch on Monday accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces聽 and allied militias, at war with the army, of committing widespread sexual violence against women in southern Sudan....
At least seven people were killed Sunday in an attack in central Mali, the local diocese and a civil society organisation told AFP....
Three civilians have been killed and 20 wounded in a drone attack by paramilitaries in the western Sudanese town of El-Fasher in North Darfur, activists said on Sunday.
The World Health Organisation voiced alarm Thursday at recent attacks in Sudan鈥檚 war-ravaged Darfur region, which it said had killed dozens of people and injured many more.
Kenyan police tear-gassed a peaceful march against femicide in the capital Nairobi on Tuesday, detaining a number of protesters, according to AFP reporters and rights groups...
Somali pirates who hijacked a Chinese fishing boat have demanded a ransom payment for the vessel and its 18 crew members, police and local officials said on Saturday...
Ghana鈥檚 former president John Dramani Mahama won a historic comeback election victory on Sunday after voters appeared to punish the ruling New Patriotic Party over its management of an economic crisis...