ALGIERS – Algeria’s national airline, Air Algerie, says it has lost contact with one of its planes flying from Burkina Faso to…
DAR ER SALAAM – Eight people from a Tanzanian medical institute have been arrested after 85 bags containing body parts were found…
JOHANNESBURG – Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) [JSE:AMS] plans to sell some of its Rustenburg and Union mines, the company said on Monday….
NAIROBI – The Twitter accounts of the Kenyan defence forces and its spokesman have been hacked by activists protesting about corruption. “All…
ABUJA – Many people are feared dead after suspected Boko Haram Islamist gunmen attacked a town in north-east Nigeria. Eyewitnesses told the…
ADDIS ABABA – Nine Ethiopian journalists and bloggers held in detention since April have been charged with terrorism by a court in…
JOHANNESBURG – The items include a chess set of figures from either side of the apartheid battle, and salt and pepper shakers…
ABUJA – Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan wants the government to borrow $1bn (£580m) to strengthen the military’s capability to fight militant Islamists….
JOHANNESBURG – Metal thieves in South Africa have stolen nearly 10km (6 miles) of working railway track, causing about $2.3m (£1.3m) of…
TRIPOLI – Libyans are stunned after two days of fighting between rival militias leaves the country’s main international airport out of action….
