A man stabbed two people to death and wounded two others in an attack yesterday at a mosque in South Africa before being shot dead

Nine people were killed in three suicide bombings in southeastern Niger near the border with Nigeria, a local official says.

This year, plastic pollution is the main theme of International Environment Day, celebrated on June 5.

An anti-immigration opposition party won Slovenia's parliamentary election on Sunday, taking 25 percent of the vote, according to

Cattle thieves have killed 23 people in Nigeria's Zamfara state which has been battling cattle rustling and kidnapping in recent months, a

Cattle thieves have killed 23 people in northern Nigeria's Zamfara state which has been battling cattle rustling and kidnapping in recent months, a local government official says.

Grandparents have a legal right to see their grandchildren, the EU's top court ruled yesterday, meaning divorced parents cannot deny

Around 20 people including civilians were killed in a suspected jihadist attack in northeastern Mali near the border with Niger, sources

Two female suicide bombers suspected to be Boko Haram jihadists killed at least three people in northeast Nigeria, emergency services said Monday.

Fifty people died in a boat accident on a river in remote northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), officials said yesterday.

She's a born rebel: a remote Brazilian island welcomed its first baby in 12 years after a local woman broke the rule against giving birth

A black box from a Boeing passenger jet that crashed in Cuba, killing 110 people and wounding three others, has been found and is in

The Democratic Republic of Congo joined with world agencies and neighbouring countries yesterday in boosting the response to an Ebola outbreak in the sprawling country's northwest, as the toll mounted.

An armed group has killed 26 people in northwest Burundi, the security minister said yesterday, days ahead of a constitutional

Weeks of torrential rain after a long drought have turned from blessing to curse in East Africa, killing hundreds of people and displacing hundreds of thousands of others.

Suicide bombers killed more than 60 people at a mosque and a market in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday, in a twin attack bearing the

Explosions in and around a mosque in northeast Nigeria killed at least 20 people, police say.

Two suicide bombers killed three Muslim worshippers in a mosque in a northeast Nigerian town. The bombers, a man and a woman,

Some 139 members of a Bangladeshi Formed Police Unit (FPU) serving with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) have been awarded the UN medal for their efforts to support peace in the West African country.

As Nigeria prepares to mark the fourth anniversary of the Chibok kidnapping, UNICEF yesterday reported that over 1,000 children have