The Vatican’s Pope Francis has strived to be a voice of peace and unity on a continent struggling to deal with a refugee crisis. On Thursday he spoke out once again, this time against mass media,...
Cabin crew on an Indian passenger aircraft have used a fire extinguisher to tackle a smoking Samsung handset. The Note 2 handset was smouldering and spitting sparks, according to a statement from...
A Tanzanian lecturer has been charged with insulting President John Magufuli in a WhatsApp message, a senior police official said on Friday, bringing the number of people charged under a tough new...
The World Bank will provide up to $500 million to Ghana in the form of a partial risk guarantee for use if the country defaults on payments for gas from the Sankofa field, the state oil company said...
TV3 in partnership with the National Cardiothoracic Centre has launched the “Think Heart- Save a Child” Campaign. The campaign is a charity arm under Media General’s 3 Foundation that was...
Uganda plans to spend at least $2 billion in the next five years to connect more people to its electricity grid and raise connection rates, a senior executive at sole power distributor Umeme Ltd said...
More than $1 billion in debt and financing commitments from US agencies and private investors is set to be announced on Wednesday for US. President Barack Obama's signature Africa energy initiative,...
Zimbabwe's 92-year-old President Robert Mugabe should step aside without delay and allow new leadership of a country whose political and economic implosion since 2000 is dragging down the whole of...
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt may have made millions between them since marrying in 2014, but as the two negotiate the terms of their just-announced divorce, one expert says their biggest battle could...
President Ian Khama of Botswana said on Tuesday he had ordered the arrest and deportation of U. S. pastor Steven Anderson, who was banned from neighboring South Africa last week over his anti-gay...
Botswana is to deport controversial US pastor Steven Anderson after he said on a local radio that homosexuals should be “stoned to death”. President Ian Khama told the Reuters news agency that he...
North Korea has carried out a "successful" ground test of a new rocket engine to launch satellites, state media says. Kim Jong-un, the country's leader, asked scientists and engineers to make...
The US government has expressed "outrage" over an attack on an aid convoy near the Syrian city of Aleppo that, a war monitor says, left 12 dead. The UN has confirmed that the convoy was hit near the...
A week-old truce in Syria brokered by the US and Russia appears close to unravelling, with alleged violations by government and rebel forces mounting. A US-backed rebel group in the divided northern...
Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama arrived in New York this morning (September 18, 2016) for the 71st United Nations General Assembly. Accompanied by the First Lady, Mrs Lordina Mahama, he was met...
President John Dramani Mahama has left Accra for New York to attend the 71st General Assembly of the United Nations. This year’s General Debate will open on Tuesday, with President Mahama scheduled...
President John Dramani Mahama has left Accra for New York to attend the 71st General Assembly of the United Nations. This year’s General Debate will open on Tuesday, with President Mahama scheduled...
A group of Central European EU members known as the Visegrad Four is ready to veto any Brexit deal that would limit people's right to work in the UK, Slovakian PM Robert Fico says. In an interview...
Somalia's Islamist militant group al Shabaab attacked a town in a region near Kenya's border, killing at least seven Somali soldiers, the group and Somali officials said. Al Shabaab, which regularly...
Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote told CNBC that a wave of asset selling by the government could be the best way to boost Nigeria's recession-hit economy. "I think the real challenge for us is now...
