For not only neglecting, but also failing to protect the interests of the people of La and Ga-Dangme, a group calling...
Ethiopia's security forces have detained more than 1,600 people under a state of emergency imposed on 9 October to end...
Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic extremists have overrun a remote military camp in the northeast, leaving 13 soldiers...
A "humanitarian pause" announced by Russia is to formally come into effect in Syria's city of Aleppo to allow civilians...
President John Mahama has announced a surprise compensation package to persons affected by the 2012 riots between...
A police van has rammed protesters in the Philippines capital Manila as a demonstration outside the US embassy turned...
Thousands of people have fled the Mosul area and more are expected as Iraqi troops move on the city to liberate it from...
play videoThree student activists were run over by the police van and taken to hospital A police van in the Philippines...
Several Nigerian soldiers are missing following an attack by suspected militant Islamists on their positions near the...
Some 900 people have fled the Iraqi city of Mosul and crossed the border into Syria, the UN refugee agency says. This...
The fight in Mosul is projected to last 60 days The battle to recapture Mosul from ISIS could take two months, a...
This used to be South Sudan's second largest city, a bustling center on the White Nile River of more than 120,000...
Kurdish forces are rolling in from the east The EU should be prepared for returning jihadists if the so-called Islamic...
At least six people have been killed and several injured after a suicide attacker drove a bomb-laden car into a police...
The insects are harvested from trees, smoked and often eaten with sauce. At least 16 people have been killed in...
With ethnic uprisings spreading across an Ethiopia now ruled by martial law there is only one nationally based...
Ethiopia's government has declared a six-month state of emergency in the face of an unprecedented wave of violent...
South Sudan's former Vice-President Riek Machar says he is "broke" and struggling to pay rent for the house where his...
A group calling itself Coalition of La Youth Association (COLA) has attacked the Mahama-led National Democratic...