LAGOS – Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked his military high command, his spokesman Reuben Abati has said. No reason was given…
CAIRO – Egypt’s army chief Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said Saturday that he would run for president if the Egyptian people wanted…
SIRTE – Libya’s deputy industry minister has been shot dead during a visit to his hometown of Sirte, east of the capital…
BANGUI – Central Africa Republic’s interim President Michel Djotodia has resigned at a regional summit aimed at ending violence that has engulfed…
BANGUI – The president of the Central African Republic, where more than a thousand people have died in recent violence, is preparing…
CAIRO – Egypt’s deposed President Mohammed Morsi has arrived at a court compound in Cairo amid tight security for the resumption of…
LUSAKA – An opposition politician in Zambia has been arrested and charged with defamation after he compared the president to a potato….
KHARTOUM – Talks to end the South Sudan conflict have opened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s foreign ministry says. Negotiators for the government…
JUBA – US President Barack Obama has warned that South Sudan is on the “precipice” of a civil war, after clashes in…
QUNU – The coffin, draped in the South African flag, was placed beneath a lectern where speakers paid their tributes. Some guests…
