Yemen's ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh is open to negotiations with rival Saudi Arabia, two years into a deadly war between Saleh's Huthi rebel allies and the Saudi-backed government. "We have no...
The head of Gambia's central bank Amadou Colley, appointed by the previous President Yahya Jammeh, has been sacked. No official reason has been given for the sacking and Mr Colley told the Reuters...
Police in Myanmar fired warning shots to break up scuffles between Buddhist nationalists and Muslims in Myanmar's biggest city in the early hours of Wednesday after a crowd went hunting for "illegal"...
Thailand's military said Wednesday it was hunting four suspects over a large car bomb which wounded more than 60 people outside a supermarket in the insurgency-plagued south. The Muslim-majority...
Cambodia's strongman premier Hun Sen warned Wednesday that he would not hesitate to quash protests with military might if they turn violent, raising tensions as the country braces for elections. Hun...
Terrorists are planning to kidnap foreigners on a Philippine island popular with tourists, the US embassy has warned, a month after a foiled abduction attempt by Islamic militants at another tourism...
South Korea's new president is a former pro-democracy activist and special forces soldier whose electoral victory caps a turbulent political career -- he was jailed by his predecessor's father. Moon...
The election of South Korea's new president Moon Jae-In heralds a sea change in Seoul's approach towards the nuclear-armed North -- and puts it on a potential collision course with Washington. The...
US President Donald Trump has approved supplying weapons to Kurdish forces fighting so-called Islamic State (IS) in Syria, the Pentagon says. Kurdish elements of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)...
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has dismissed Paul Malong, the war-torn country's powerful army chief of staff. Malong was sacked via a presidential decree that was announced on Tuesday on...
Four UN peacekeepers have been found dead and one remains missing after an attack on a convoy in the Central African Republic (CAR), United Nations officials said on Tuesday. The UN's MINUSCA mission...
The 82 girls were taken to Abuja to meet President Muhammadu Buhari after their rescue on Saturday One of the Chibok girls kidnapped by Islamist militants Boko Haram chose to stay with her husband...
Libya's foreign minister said Tuesday a rival general must accept civilian rule in order to play a role in the country's future. Field Marshal Khalifa "Haftar must first accept to work under a...
South Sudan President Salva Kiir sacked his powerful, hardline army chief Paul Malong on Tuesday, a government spokesman said. General Paul Malong, long regarded as an ethnic nationalist of Kiir's...
Chinese defense chiefs say the country's military has successfully tested a new kind of guided missile near the Korean peninsula. The test in the Bohai Sea was to 'raise the operational capability of...
Palestinians called for a boycott of Pizza Hut on Tuesday after the company's franchise in Israel was accused of mocking hunger-striking prisoners. The franchise's Facebook page was said to have...
Bahrain has referred its first civilian case to a military court following a constitutional amendment approved by the king last month, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. Inspired in part by Arab...
Congolese President Joseph Kabila named an expanded new government on Tuesday, with almost all his old team retained, as part of power-sharing deal to end a crisis over his wish to remain in power....
Not long ago Shatta Movement boss Shatta Wale announced that he had signed three artistes on to his record label. The artistes are Addi Self, Captan and Joint 77. The three who have been featured on...
The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has denied engaging in illegal mining popularly known as ‘galamsey’. Their reaction comes on the back of a media discussion which indicated that soldiers were...
