Africa

A quartet of international groups said March 18 it supported efforts by Libya’s unity government to assert control over Tripoli after days of fighting with rival militias. The Cairo meeting…

Zimbabwe’s central bank has printed half of the ‘bond notes’ quasi-currency it intends to issue under a $200 million scheme, a state newspaper reported on Friday, as the country grapples…

Robbers stole 15 computers containing information on South Africa’s judges and court officials from the administrative offices of the Chief Justice on Saturday, the judiciary said. The office of Chief…

Civilians gather to witness a security operation near the residence of Ne Muanda Nsemi, a member of parliament and leader of Bundu dia Kongo (BDK), in the Democratic Republic of…

South Africa’s Constitutional Court ordered the government on Friday to pay social grants on April 1 via its current service provider, seeking to end a fiasco that had threatened the…

Thirty-one Somali refugees were killed off the coast of Yemen late on Thursday when a helicopter attacked the boat they were travelling in, a local coast guard in the Houthi-controlled…

Three years after the world’s worst recorded Ebola outbreak was first declared in Guinea, hundreds of survivors who suffer from physical and mental health problems are struggling to access care,…

Uganda”s police investigators are seen working at the cordoned off scene of crime where unknown gunmen killed the spokesman for Uganda”s police force Felix Kaweesi and two other victims, in…

The pirates seized the Comoros-flagged Aris 13 tanker on Monday, the first such hijacking in the region since 2012, and took it to the port of Alula in the semi-autonomous…