JOHANNESBURG – The ex-wife of South Africa’s first black President Nelson Mandela has demanded his village home for her children, potentially trigging…
JOHANESSBURG – An earthquake has struck South Africa, killing one person and trapping some mine workers in a town south-west of Johannesburg,…
MONROVIA – Liberia’s government has ordered that all bodies of people killed by the Ebola virus must be cremated. The decision follows…
WEST AFRICA – The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is spreading faster than efforts to control it, World Health Organization (WHO) head…
KAMPALA – Uganda’s Constitutional Court has annulled tough anti-gay legislation signed into law in February. It ruled that the bill was passed…
LUSAKA – It’s the new frontier for the internet – connecting billions of people in Africa and Asia who have yet to…
MOGADISHU – Militant Islamists in Somalia have shot dead a Muslim woman for refusing to wear a veil, her relatives say. Ruqiya…
MONROVIA – Liberia has suspended all football activities in an effort to control the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. There was…
ABUJA – The use of vehicles in Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno state has been banned during Eid, the three-day festival that ends Ramadan,…
ALGIERS – There are no survivors from the Air Algerie AH5017 passenger jet that crashed in Mali, says the French President, Francois…
