Former Congolese Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba has been found guilty by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of bribing witnesses. Bemba was found guilty earlier this year of war crimes and...
For not only neglecting, but also failing to protect the interests of the people of La and Ga-Dangme, a group calling itself the Coalition of La Youth (COLA) has waged war on the Mahama-led...
Ethiopia's security forces have detained more than 1,600 people under a state of emergency imposed on 9 October to end a wave of anti-government protests, a tally of figures published by the...
Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic extremists have overrun a remote military camp in the northeast, leaving 13 soldiers wounded and an unknown number missing, the army said Wednesday. Monday's attack comes...
A "humanitarian pause" announced by Russia is to formally come into effect in Syria's city of Aleppo to allow civilians and rebels leave the city. Moscow earlier said air strikes by Russia and...
President John Mahama has announced a surprise compensation package to persons affected by the 2012 riots between indigenes of Gbi Traditional Council and the Zongo community in Hohoe municipality....
A police van has rammed protesters in the Philippines capital Manila as a demonstration outside the US embassy turned violent. Footage showed protesters surrounding the van and hitting it with batons...
Thousands of people have fled the Mosul area and more are expected as Iraqi troops move on the city to liberate it from the so-called Islamic State (IS). Some 5,000 people have crossed the border...
play videoThree student activists were run over by the police van and taken to hospital A police van in the Philippines rammed left-wing protesters and ran over some of them at an anti-US rally...
Several Nigerian soldiers are missing following an attack by suspected militant Islamists on their positions near the border with Niger, the army has said in a statement. It did not give a number,...
Some 900 people have fled the Iraqi city of Mosul and crossed the border into Syria, the UN refugee agency says. This is the first large group of civilians confirmed to have escaped since the Iraqi...
The fight in Mosul is projected to last 60 days The battle to recapture Mosul from ISIS could take two months, a Peshmerga military commander told CNN on Tuesday, the second day of the long-awaited...
This used to be South Sudan's second largest city, a bustling center on the White Nile River of more than 120,000 people, many employed in the oil fields nearby. Today Malakal is rubble and almost...
Kurdish forces are rolling in from the east The EU should be prepared for returning jihadists if the so-called Islamic State (IS) is driven out of its Iraqi stronghold, Mosul, an official warns....
At least six people have been killed and several injured after a suicide attacker drove a bomb-laden car into a police station just outside the Somali capital, residents have told the BBC. "Many...
The insects are harvested from trees, smoked and often eaten with sauce. At least 16 people have been killed in inter-ethnic clashes in Katanaga province, in the southeast of the Democratic Republic...
With ethnic uprisings spreading across an Ethiopia now ruled by martial law there is only one nationally based organization in place to lead the eventual regime change in the country and that is the...
Ethiopia's government has declared a six-month state of emergency in the face of an unprecedented wave of violent protests. Activists in the country's Oromia region has been holding demonstrations...
South Sudan's former Vice-President Riek Machar says he is "broke" and struggling to pay rent for the house where his family lives in Kenya, the Nairobi-based The Star newspaper reports. His...
A group calling itself Coalition of La Youth Association (COLA) has attacked the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) government for its failure to sustain and consolidate the gains made by...
