Africa

A man collects sacks of food from a dry river bed after a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) airdrop close to Rubkuai village in Unity State, northern South Sudan,…

A nun cries as she stands at the scene inside Cairo’s Coptic cathedral, following a bombing, in Egypt December 11, 2016. REUTERS photo Islamic State published a video on Sunday…

Gambia’s President Adama Barrow vowed on Saturday to revive the country’s faltering economy with sweeping reforms as he sought to draw a line under the erratic 22-year rule of his…

Zimbabwe’s people and the ruling ZANU-PF party see no viable alternative candidate to President Robert Mugabe for general elections in 2018, state media quoted him as saying on Sunday. “They…

Gambia”s new President Adama Barrow holds the Koran during the swearing-in ceremony at the Independence Stadium, in Bakau, Gambia February 18, 2017. For one Gambian government minister, the ceremonial swearing…

Archived photo A blast from a suicide car bomb ripped through a market in Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday, killing 18 people and wounding at least 25, a local official…

British High Commissioner to Ghana, Jon Benjamin, arguably the most controversial diplomat in the country, has been replaced. UK Foreign Office has announced the appointment of Iain Walker by Her…

Democratic Republic of Congo’s government said on Saturday it was investigating a video that appears to show Congolese troops shooting dead a group of apparent militia members armed with slingshots…

President Robert Mugabe at the inauguration of his new cabinet, Harare, Zimbabwe, September 11, 2013 CREDIT: XU LINGUI/REX   Zimbabwe’s 92-year-old President Robert Mugabe should run “as a corpse” in next…

Vice President Manuel Domingos Vicente of Angola   Angolan Vice President Manuel Vicente had been charged in Portugal with corruption and money laundering, the Prosecutor General’s office in Lisbon said on…