In a message to the G20 summit, Pope Francis yesterday highlighted the plight of some 30 million people trapped in

Seven children and one adult were killed in a stampede at Malawi's national stadium yesterday as large crowds gathered for

A roadside bomb struck a minibus north of the Somali capital Mogadishu late on Saturday, killing two people and injuring six

Facebook said Tuesday it now counts two billion active monthly users, as the social giant's founder Mark Zuckerberg

Five people were killed and 10 were wounded yesterday when a car packed with explosives rammed into the wall of a police station in

Angolan capital Luanda is the world's most expensive city for expatriates in a new ranking that also puts four other Asian centres in the top 10. Luanda took the top spot, followed by Hong Kong and Tokyo. Seoul was at six and Shanghai at eight, according to a survey.

Around 100 Libya-bound migrants, including women, have been rescued from the Sahara desert in Niger after being

A bus accident in Zimbabwe has killed 43 people after the driver lost control and rammed into a tree, police said yesterday. "The bus was

Eleven people were killed when Boko Haram gunmen and suicide bombers launched a rare combined attack inside the strategic northeast

Two children, between 10 and 15 year, carrying explosives blew themselves up on Friday near a camp in northern Cameroon housing

At least 44 migrants, including women and babies, are found dead after their vehicle broke down in the desert of northern Niger while on the way to Libya, local officials say.

Nigeria's ailing president was glaringly absent yesterday as his deputy marked their two years in power, with no word on the head of

South African President Jacob Zuma survived fresh calls within the ruling ANC party for him to resign, party officials said yesterday, as

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, will not join an Islamic summit in Saudi Arabia

President Emmanuel Macron arrived yesterday in conflict-torn Mali to visit French troops fighting jihadists on his first official trip outside

An Ebola outbreak has been declared in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization said

Three more UN peacekeepers have been found dead after an attack on a convoy in the Central African Republic, UN

Brazil's former leftist president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, backed by hundreds of red-shirted supporters, was due in

Between 7,000 and 8,000 migrants mostly from sub-Saharan Africa are being held in Libyan detention centres after

War has now forced more than one million children to flee South Sudan and uprooted 1.4 million others within the