It was a handshake that drew a line under Kenya's bruising election, left many people bewildered and swung open the starting gate for

Boko Haram killed at least 18 people and wounded scores in coordinated attacks overnight on a military camp and villages around the flashpoint Nigerian city of Maiduguri, which they also tried to infiltrate across a defensive trench, officials said yesterday.

Twelve people are killed and another 25 were injured when the bus they were traveling in careened off a road in a coastal region of western Ecuador, officials say.

Boko Haram Islamists who kidnapped 110 schoolgirls in Dapchi, northeast Nigeria, just over a month ago have so far returned 101 of

Boko Haram Islamists who kidnapped 110 schoolgirls in Dapchi, northeast Nigeria, just over a month ago have returned 76 of the students to the town, the government says.

A powerful tropical storm that lashed the island of Madagascar has left 20 people dead and affected 19,000 more, according to an

Suspected Boko Haram jihadists killed five fishermen on a remote island in northeastern Nigeria for aiding the search

Richard Appiah Akoto who used his blackboard to explain computer features and software to his students in the southern Ghana, is earning numerous headlines and worldwide admiration, reports CNN.

Cubans yesterday voted to ratify a new National Assembly, a key step in a process leading to the election of a new

Up to 14 people were killed in landslides and by collapsed buildings during a powerful earthquake in the remote Papua New Guinea

The Nigerian government on Sunday confirmed that 110 girls were missing after a Boko Haram school attack in the

More than 100 girls are reported missing after a Boko Haram school attack in northeast Nigeria this week that President Muhammadu

At least five refugees were killed and 20 injured at a camp in Rwanda when a protest over a cut in food rations turned violent, Rwandan police said yesterday. The refugees from neighbouring Republic of Congo were protesting against a 25 percent cut implemented last month in rations provided by the UNHCR.

More than 90 Nigerian schoolgirls are feared missing after Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram attacked a village in the northeastern

Three suicide bombers killed 19 people at a fish market in northeast Nigeria, civilian militia leaders said yesterday, in an attack blamed

French air power on Wednesday killed at least 10 jihadists in northeast Mali near the border with Algeria, local and foreign military

Twenty-two students and their driver were Tuesday killed when their bus collided with a truck in northern Nigeria, sources said. The

Before man-made climate change kicked in -- and well before “Day Zero” in Cape Town, where taps may run dry in early May -- the global water crisis was upon us. Freshwater resources were already badly stressed before heat-trapping carbon emissions from fossil fuels began to warm Earth’s surface and affect rainfall.

Top leaders of South Africa's ruling ANC were set to meet yesterday to "finalise" the departure of embattled President Jacob Zuma after

The top decision-making body of South Africa's ruling ANC will meet tomorrow following days of talks over President Jacob Zuma's