In formulating a new executive order limiting travel to the United States, President Donald Trump has promised to make the directive harder to fight successfully in court than the one he issued in...
UN aid chief Stephen O'Brien on Tuesday cancelled a visit to Yemen's third city Taez when shelling and a rebel checkpoint blocked his route, several sources said. A UN source in Yemen told AFP that...
Somali's newly elected President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed on Tuesday declared a "national disaster" due to severe drought which aid agencies say has left some three million in crisis. The Horn of...
A security analyst, Nana Owusu Sekyere, has described the attacks on other African nationals in South Africa as hypocritical, especially as Europeans rather control majority of the wealth generated...
From ancient Rome to modern times, mankind has suffered devastating periods of hunger caused by drought, war or misguided politics. Last week South Sudan was declared the site of the world's first...
Islamic militants in the Philippines have posted a video showing the beheading of a German hostage. Juergen Kantner was abducted from his yacht off Malaysia’s Sabah state in November. His companion...
Tanzania on Monday backed out of its plan to publish a list of names of gay people accused of selling sex online, saying this would "destroy evidence". Deputy health minister Hamisi Kigwangalla had...
Islamic militants in the Philippines have posted a video showing the beheading of a German hostage. Jurgen Kantner was abducted from his yacht off Malaysia’s Sabah state in November. His companion...
Traders in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, are counting their losses following a huge fire that destroyed parts of the country’s biggest open-air market this morning. The fire at Bakara market...
Islamic militants in the Philippines have posted a video showing the beheading of a German hostage. Jurgen Kantner was abducted from his yacht off Malaysia's Sabah state in November. His companion...
Islamic militants in the Philippines have beheaded the German hostage they were holding for ransom, the SITE Intelligence group said Monday. A video posted by the extremist Abu Sayyaf group, which...
Ugandan President, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, has back the nationalism agenda of US President Donald Trump. Museveni, however, offers a word of advice to Trump, that he should still keep America open to...
The jagged, ice-capped Rwenzori Mountains stab at the sky above Mpondwe, a bustling border town in western Uganda. Trucks move slowly and one at a time across a rickety metal bridge above the...
South African police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades to break up clashes between local protesters and migrants in Pretoria on Friday at a march against immigration. Shops and homes owned by...
At least 300 people gathered for an anti-immigration march in the South African capital Pretoria on Friday, as President Jacob Zuma condemned xenophobic violence that has targeted shops and homes....
Kenya has been ranked top in Africa in cases of police shootings and killing of civilians according to a report by Amnesty International shows. The report indicates that by October 2016, a total of...
Hassan Ali Kheyre, a former aid worker and oil executive, was named prime minister of Somalia on Thursday by the country's new President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed. Mohamed, popularly known as...
Somalia’s new president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, during his inaugurated on Wednesday in the capital, Magadishu promised his people that the era of al Shabaab and other Islamist militant groups...
UN aid agencies need $4.4 billion in emergency funding to address famine in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday. More than 20 million people...
Somalia's new President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed sought to downplay high expectations of his new administration at his inauguration Wednesday, saying it would take decades to fix the nation's many...
