Eleven people were killed when militants attacked a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo and freed more than 900 inmates, officials say.
The governor...
Ghana is struggling to deal with an emerging trend of angry mobs lynching persons suspected to have committed crimes in their communities.
The gruesome murder...
South Sudan’s media authority says it has banned 20 foreign journalists from operating or entering the country for publishing false news.
The chairman of the...
Up to 10,000 people have been evacuated from a scenic coastal town in South Africa that has been devastated by wildfires, officials have said.
Military...
Al Shabaab militants captured a town in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region on Thursday, a senior official said, and the group said it had killed...
Suspected Boko Haram fighters attacked the city of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria on Wednesday, the Islamist militant group's most serious assault on the regional...
