More than 80,000 people have fled their homes in Pool province surrounding Congo Republic’s capital since the government began a military operation there last year, a...
Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday said a team of NATO experts would help the Libyan government build defence and security institutions. Stoltenberg made the remarks after...
Nigeria is projected to be the world’s third most populous country by the year 2050, according to a report released by the UN Department of Economic...
Somalia’s Islamist al Shabaab group killed 20 soldiers in an attack on a military base in a town in the semi-autonomous Puntland region on Thursday, an...
Gunmen attacked the convoy of South Sudan’s First Vice President Taban Gai on Tuesday, wounding three of his bodyguards, a government official said.
South African President Jacob Zuma made a hasty exit from a May Day rally on Monday after the crowd of workers that he was due to...
Pope Francis on Friday paid tribute to victims of recent suicide bombings at Coptic churches in Egypt.
Pope Francis arrives in Cairo on Friday hoping to mend ties with Islamic religious leaders just as Egypt’s ancient Christian community faces unprecedented pressure from Islamic...
President Edgar Lungu of Zambia on Friday threatened to declare a state of emergency if people do not stop setting ablaze public properties in the wake...
The right won by Nigeria to host the United Nation World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) conference in 2018 has been described as “a global endorsement of programmes...