An estimated 200 people or more have been killed in villages in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara during deadly reprisal attacks by armed bandits following military air strikes on their hideouts this week, residents said on Saturday (Jan 8).

At least seven people died and nine were seriously injured when a wall of rock collapsed on top of motor boats below a waterfall in southeastern Brazil on Saturday, the fire department said.

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi yesterday rejected suggestions that Beijing was luring African countries into debt traps by offering them massive loans,

A fire that devastated South Africa’s parliament was finally contained yesterday after a two-day battle, firefighters said, as a man appeared in court to face charges of starting the blaze.

Twenty-three people have been reported killed so far in Colombia's Arauca province amid fighting between illegal armed groups, Defense Minister Diego Molano told a news conference late on January 3.

A fire that ravaged part of South Africa’s parliament, engulfing the National Assembly and threatening national treasures, has been brought under control, firefighters said yesterday, as police charged a suspect with starting the blaze.

Sudan’s civilian Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has resigned, more than two months after a coup and following another deadly crackdown on protesters, with the military now firmly in control.

A fire that ravaged part of South Africa’s parliament, engulfing the National Assembly and threatening national treasures, has been brought under control, firefighters said yesterday, as police charged a suspect with starting the blaze.

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said on Sunday he was resigning, six weeks after returning to his post in a deal with military coup leaders he argued could save a transition toward democracy.

A massive fire in South Africa’s houses of parliament in Cape Town has “burned down” the entire National Assembly where elected parliamentarians sit, a spokesperson said yesterday.

A fire erupted at the South African parliament in Cape Town on Sunday, with media coverage showing flames coming from the roof of the building and a plume of smoke that could be seen from some distance.

Three Bangladeshi peacekeepers were injured when their vehicle drove over a mine in Central African Republic's troubled northwest, the UN mission said Saturday.

The body of South Africa’s revered anti-apartheid fighter Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who died at the weekend aged 90, will lie in state for two

Twelve civilians and 38 rebels have died in four days of fighting in northeast DR Congo, where the armed forces are carrying out a crackdown on militias, military and local sources said on Monday.

The death toll from heavy rain and flooding that has plagued the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia since November rose to 20 on Monday,

South African anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu, described as the country’s moral compass, died yesterday aged 90, sparking an outpouring of tributes for the outspoken Nobel peace laureate.

South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who died Sunday at the age of 90, was the moral compass of his beloved “Rainbow Nation”, never afraid to speak truth to power, whatever its creed or colour.

Ethiopia’s government said on Friday that its troops would not advance further into the war-torn region of Tigray but warned that the decision could be overturned if “territorial sovereignty” was threatened.

Sudanese security forces fired tear gas to disperse protesters in the capital Khartoum yesterday as the opponents of military rule marched towards the presidential palace, a Reuters witness said, while internet services in the city were also cut.

Some 45 farmers were killed in attacks carried out by herders in Nigeria’s central Nasarawa state, the presidency said on Tuesday, giving a higher toll than local officials.