JOHANNESSBURG – South African Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer has died in Johannesburg aged 90. The writer, who was one of the literary…
FREETOWN – High numbers of new cases of the Ebola virus are being reported in Sierra Leone and Liberia, with 19 deaths…
BUJUMBURA – Burundi’s lower house of parliament has passed a bill intended to curb the country’s “proliferation of churches”. A government survey…
ABUJA – More than 60 women and girls are reported to have escaped from the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, security sources…
ARUSHA – Eight people have been injured in a bomb blast at a restaurant in the Tanzanian town of Arusha, officials have…
CAIRO – Egypt’s President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has said he wishes the three al-Jazeera journalists imprisoned last month had never been put…
ABUJA – Three women have been arrested in Nigeria for recruiting female members for the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, the country’s…
ABUJA – A Nigerian man detained in a hospital psychiatric ward because he did not believe in God has been freed, a…
KAMPALA – Ugandan police have stepped up security in the capital Kampala following a “specific threat” of a planned attack on its…
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s largest union is going ahead with plans to picket the country’s main energy supplier. This is despite a…
