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Britain is to halve the amount of money it gives in humanitarian aid to Nigeria over the next few years, says the international development minister.

Three civilians were killed after their vehicle ran over a landmine on a road near Kenya’s border with Somalia, a government official said, in the fifth such incident in the area in three months.

Zimbabwe’s President, Robert Mugabe has condemned the 2011 role of Nato in Libya leading to the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime and his eventually death in the hands of Libyan rebel forces.

Gunmen ambushed and killed four soldiers and a civilian in Nigeria's oil-rich south, local sources said Wednesday, breaking months of uneasy calm after unrest over the distribution of the country's oil revenues.

10 men and boys, all civilians have been killed in a joint U.S.-Somali raid in Bariire, announced by Somali government officials on Thursday.

Pope Francis launches an emotionally charged visit next week to Colombia, to call for reconciliation as the country emerges from Latin America's longest civil war in a contested peace process.

Libya seized a foreign oil tanker and trawler Wednesday off the country's western coast and detained their crews for questioning in Tripoli, the navy and coastguard said.

A court in Togo has jailed opposition supporters who participated in a protest calling for an end to the Gnassingbe dynasty.

The president of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday chaired his first cabinet meeting since returning from his sick leave in London.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has pardoned and released a prominent human rights activists who had been jailed since last year on spying and other charges, his family said.