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 …