Sports-mad South Africa salutes Mandela ‘The Captain’
By Ed Stoddard and Ed Cropley Sports-mad South Africa saluted Nelson Mandela on Saturday with smiles and moments of silence in honour of the late...
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Sport mourns ‘miracle man’ Mandela
By Sudipto Ganguly Tributes have poured in from across the sporting world for Nelson Mandela, who died aged 95 on Thursday, including from the International...
Mandela stable but critical
Nelson Mandela remains in a stable but critical condition more than two months after hospital doctors treating him for a lung infection let him return...
Kenya charges four men with aiding shopping mall attackers
By Humphrey Malalo A Kenyan court charged four Somali men on Monday with terrorist offences for helping al Qaeda-linked militants carry out an attack on...
Two life sentences for rape, murder that shocked South Africa
By Alvin Andrews A South African court sentenced a man to two life terms on Friday for the rape, mutilation and murder of a teenager...
Kenyan deputy president must attend his trial – ICC judges
By Thomas Escritt Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto must attend all sessions of his trial at the International Criminal Court unless specifically excused, appeals judges...
Two Kenya mall bodies ‘highly likely’ to be attackers – lawmaker
By Richard Lough Two charred corpses recovered from Kenya’s Westgate shopping mall are “highly likely” to be two of the gunmen who killed at least...
Kenyan military names Nairobi mall attackers seen on CCTV footage
By James Macharia Kenya’s military spokesman on Saturday named four men – including a Sudanese, a Kenyan Arab and a Somali – he said took...
Interpol issues alert for UK ‘White Widow’ sought in Kenya
By Alexandria Sage Interpol issued a wanted persons alert at Kenya’s request on Thursday for Samantha Lewthwaite, a British citizen dubbed the “White Widow”, without...
Kenyan president says mall operation over, militants ‘defeated’
By Richard Lough and Edmund Blair Kenya’s president said his forces had “defeated” Islamists from Somalia’s al Shabaab on Tuesday, shooting dead five and capturing...
Militants say they are ‘holding out’ in Kenya mall
By Richard Lough and Duncan Miriri Somalia’s al Shabaab Islamist group said on Tuesday its militants were still holed up in a Kenyan shopping mall...
Gunfire erupts after Kenya says all hostages freed in mall siege
Kenya said its security forces had taken control of the Nairobi shopping mall where Islamist fighters killed at least 62 people, and that police were...
Smoke pours from Kenya mall as forces ‘close in’
By Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Richard Lough Thick smoke poured from the besieged Nairobi mall where Kenyan officials said their forces were closing in on...
Islamist gunmen holed up with hostages in Kenya siege, 59 dead
Islamist militants were holed up with hostages on Sunday at a shopping mall in Nairobi, where at least 59 people have been killed in...
Gunmen storm Nairobi mall, at least 20 killed
By Edmund Blair and Goran Tomasevic Gunmen stormed a shopping mall in Nairobi on Saturday killing at least 20 people in what Kenya’s government said...
Zimbabwe’s Mugabe tells election critics to ‘go hang’
By Cris Chinaka Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe told critics of his re-election to “go hang” on Monday, making clear he would brook no questioning of...
Six migrants coming from Africa drown in sea off Sicily
By Gavin Jones Six migrants drowned off the Italian island of Sicily on Saturday after attempting a dangerous passage from Africa in a fishing boat,...
Military plane bursts into flames at Mogadishu airport
By Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar An Ethiopian military aircraft carrying ammunition crash-landed at Mogadishu’s international airport on Friday, bursting into flames and killing four...
Fire engulfs Kenya’s Nairobi airport
By Drazen Jorgic A fire engulfed Kenya’s main airport on Wednesday forcing the closure of a vital travel and trade gateway to east Africa. Flames...
Mugabe party claims Zimbabwe election win, rival cries foul
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s party claimed a landslide election victory on Thursday that would secure another five years in power for Africa’s oldest head of...
