Ninety migrants, mostly Pakistanis, feared dead in shipwreck off Libya
An estimated 90 migrants are feared to have drowned off the coast of Libya after a smuggler’s boat capsized early on Friday, leaving three known survivors and...
Africa
Kenyan opposition leader takes symbolic oath of office
Kenyan authorities shut television and radio stations on Tuesday as supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga watched him take a symbolic presidential oath on the...
Tunisia plans to increase support for poor families
Tunisia plans to increase support for poor families and needy people, a government source said on Saturday, after protests broke out in the North African...
South Africa to target investment, graft under new ANC leader
South Africa wants to attract foreign investors to help it kick-start economic growth and eradicate poverty and will crack down on corruption, the new leader...
Protests hit Tunisia for 3rd night as PM warns of clampdown
Tunisian demonstrators defied the threat of a security clampdown on Wednesday as they spilled onto the streets of the capital and at least four other...
Tunisia PM promises end to economic hardship to calm protests
Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed sought to calm anti-austerity protesters on Tuesday with promises of an end to economic hardship, a day after one demonstrator...
Tunisian protester killed in clashes with police
One person was killed on Monday during clashes between security forces and protesters in a Tunisian town, the government said, as demonstrations over rising prices...
Dozen dead, scores injured in South Africa train crash
More than a dozen people were killed and hundreds were feared injured after a train struck a lorry, derailed and burst into flames in South Africa on Thursday....
Ethiopia to release jailed politicians – PM
Ethiopia will release politicians jailed on charges including involvement in terrorism, its prime minister said on Wednesday – an unexpected shift in stance from the government,...
Suicide bomber kills 11 people in mosque attack in northeast Nigeria
A suicide bomber killed 11 people on Wednesday in an attack on a mosque in northeast Nigeria, the epicentre of the conflict with Islamist insurgency...
Congo security forces accused of killing two during anti-government protests
Congolese security forces shot dead two men on Sunday during protests against President Joseph Kabila’s refusal to step down from office, Human Rights Watch said....
Ruling by S. Africa’s top court heaps more pressure on Zuma
South Africa’s Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that parliament had failed to hold President Jacob Zuma to account over a scandal related to state-funded upgrades to his...
Football star George Weah wins Liberian presidential election
Former football star George Weah has defeated Vice President Joseph Boakai to win Liberia’s presidential run-off election and succeed incumbent Ellen Johnson Sirleaf next month, the...
Pistorius asks South Africa’s top court to cut sentence
Paralympic gold medalist Oscar Pistorius has appealed to South Africa’s highest court to cut the sentence he got for murdering his girlfriend, legal documents showed...
South Africa’s Ramaphosa wins election as ANC president
South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa became president of the ANC on Monday after a vote decribed as the most pivotal moment for the party...
Two Danish journalists wounded in Islamist knife attack in Gabon
An attacker wielding a knife and crying “Allahu Akbar” has wounded two Danish journalists in Gabon’s capital Libreville, the Gabonese defence minister said. The two...
Suicide bomber kills at least 13 in attack in Somali capital
A suicide bomber in police uniform blew himself up inside a police training camp in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Thursday, killing at least 13 police...
Rebels kill 15 peacekeepers in Congo in worst U.N. attack
Suspected Ugandan rebels killed at least 15 Tanzanian U.N. peacekeepers and wounded 53 others in a raid on a base in Congo that U.N. Secretary-General...
Sierra Leone ‘Peace Diamond’ sells for $6.5m at auction
Sierra Leone sold one of the world’s largest uncut diamonds for $6.5 million at a New York auction on Monday to raise funds for development...
Zimbabwe’s Mnangagwa drops education minister after public outcry
Zimbabwe’s new president Emmerson Mnangagwa dropped his education minister, a day after reappointing him to a cabinet which gave top posts to senior military officials...
