Fighting between Libyan smugglers kills 22 migrants: IOM
A rescue worker labels bags containing dead bodies of migrants who were washed up on a beach near the city of Zawiya, Libya February 20, 2017. Picture taken February 20,…
A rescue worker labels bags containing dead bodies of migrants who were washed up on a beach near the city of Zawiya, Libya February 20, 2017. Picture taken February 20,…
Zimbabwean junior doctors on Sunday called off a three-week strike saying the government had partially met their demands, a day before a one-day walk out by other public sector workers.…
Some 110 people have died in southern Somalia in the last two days from famine and diarrhoea resulting from a drought, the prime minister said on Saturday, as the area…
Morocco’s central bank has approved the use of five types of Islamic banking transaction, giving a final regulatory nod for the country to launch an Islamic finance industry. Islamic banks…
Gambian authorities have released 98 prisoners, mostly from the notorious Mile 2 prison, an Interior Ministry spokesman said on Friday, as the country seeks to turn a page on the…
File photo: Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi (R) shakes hands with opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama (L) on February 7, 2015 in Maputo, Mozambique. Photo: Sergio Costa/AFP Mozambique’s Renamo opposition party and…
Police in Democratic Republic of Congo said on Friday they had arrested the leader of a separatist Christian cult in the capital Kinshasa following a two-week standoff in which least…
Tunisia”s President Beji Caid Essebsi (L) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel walk past a guard of honour at Carthage Palace in Tunis, Tunisia, March 3, 2017. hancellor Angela Merkel said…
Merera Gudina, leader of the Oromo Federalist Congress An Ethiopian opposition leader from a region hit by deadly anti-government protests last year pleaded not guilty in court on Friday, after…
The family of a Liberian Ebola nurse named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” in 2014 wants to sue a hospital whose staff they say were too scared to treat…