Africa

FILE PHOTO: Fifteen-year-old Mamadou Doumbouya, a Talibe, or Islamic student, holds a begging bowl in front of a wall of graffiti in Senegal’s capital Dakar,REUTERS/Finbarr O’Reilly Young boys who were …

Libyan Strongman Khalifa Haftar attends a military parade in the eastern city of Benghazi. (AFP) Forces of Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar attacked opposition targets in the eastern city of Derna …

Kenyan police on the trail of one of the country’s most wanted criminals shot dead a 17-year-old boy after mistaking him for their suspect, the boy’s father said on Tuesday, …

FILE PHOTO: Zimbabwe’s civil servants carry placards as they march during a protest in the streets of the capital Harare, February 19, 2010. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo Zimbabwe’s public sector workers have …

Rangers said on Tuesday they had stopped tourists entering Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park during investigations into the kidnapping of two Britons there last week. Gunmen ambushed Robert …

Ethiopia’s newly elected prime minister Abiy Ahmed attends a rally during his visit to Ambo in the Oromiya region, Ethiopia April 11, 2018. Image: REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri/File Photo An exiled Ethiopian …

Men in orange jumpsuits purported to be Egyptian Christians held captive by the Islamic State (IS) kneel in front of armed men along a beach said to be near Tripoli, …

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus briefs the media on the Ebola outbreak at their headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, May 14, 2018. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse The World …

© Reuters. A health worker takes off protective clothing after visiting the isolation ward at Bikoro hospital, which received a new suspected Ebola case, in Bikoro Democratic Republic of Congo …

Two Britons held hostage in Democratic Republic of Congo have been released, Britain’s foreign minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday. They were kidnapped on Friday while visiting the Virunga National …