Six people including two children were killed in 48 hours as flash floods swept away their cars in heavy rainfall over northwest Algeria, rescue services announced on Thursday.
Ghanaian workers in the textile industry are angry at the failure of the country’s government to stop the smuggling of pirated prints many of which come from China.
Ten aid workers have gone missing in South Sudan’s Yei town in unclear circumstances, a U.N. official said on Thursday, the latest incident involving relief staff in the country.
United Nations investigators have discovered five probable mass grave sites in eastern Congo’s Ituri province where an outbreak of ethnic violence has killed at least 263 people, a U.N. peacekeeping mission said.
The new president of Sierra Leone Julius Maada Bio has announced the sacking of all political appointees at the West African nation’s foreign missions.
Police officials in Ghana have confirmed the arrest of two social welfare workers who allegedly sold a day-old baby to a couple struggling to have children.