WHO unveils $518m plan to fight Ebola
7 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Africa & rest of the world
WHO unveils $518m plan to fight Ebola
6 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Africa & rest of the world
Suspected Ebola cases top 900 in DR Congo: WHO chief
25 May 2026, 08:06 AM
Africa & rest of the world
Close shave: laser hair removal device sparks Australia airport evacuation
21 May 2026, 09:28 AM
Australia
Australian inquiry opens public hearings into Bondi Beach shooting
4 May 2026, 08:06 AM
Australia
Australian soldier charged with war crimes in Afghanistan
8 April 2026, 00:21 AM
Australia
China blasts ‘colonial’ Australia, New Zealand over rights concerns
19 March 2026, 01:36 AM
Australia
MSF says 26 staff missing from South Sudan violence
3 March 2026, 01:25 AM
Africa & rest of the world
At least 38 killed in armed attack in north-west Nigeria
21 February 2026, 19:36 PM
Africa & rest of the world
Attackers kill at least 50 in Nigeria
21 February 2026, 04:12 AM
World
Virus sets S Africa schools back 20 years : minister
At least 10,000 children in South Africa have dropped out of school since the pandemic started, with students learning half or less than average in 2020 due to coronavirus, the education ministry said yesterday.
29 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Nigerian gunmen free scores abducted from schools this year
Nigerian gunmen have freed scores of students abducted from three schools in the northwest this year, officials said Friday,
28 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Nigerian gunmen free dozens of kidnapped seminary pupils
Nigerian gunmen have freed the remaining pupils from more than 100 kidnapped from an Islamic seminary in northwestern Niger State nearly three months ago, the school's head teacher said on Thursday.
27 August 2021, 18:00 PM
16 soldiers killed in jihadist-hit southeast Niger
An attack by hundreds of Boko Haram fighters on a town in Niger’s jihadist-plagued southeast killed 16 soldiers and wounded nine others, Defence Minister Alkassoum Indatou told AFP on Wednesday.
26 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Gunman kills four in attack near French embassy in Tanzania
An attacker wielding an assault rifle was shot dead after killing three police officers and an employee of a private security company near the French embassy in Tanzania on Wednesday, President Samia Suluhu Hassan said.
25 August 2021, 15:08 PM
Algeria cuts diplomatic relations with Morocco
Algeria cut diplomatic relations with Morocco on Tuesday, citing what it called hostile actions by its most populous neighbour with which it has had strained relations for decades.
25 August 2021, 12:05 PM
Guinea monitoring 172 contact cases of Marburg virus victim
Guinean health officials are monitoring 172 contact cases of a man who died of Marburg virus, Health Minister Remy Lamah said yesterday.
19 August 2021, 18:00 PM
47 migrants feared dead off Mauritania
Forty-seven migrants are feared to have died off the coast of Mauritania after a boat was found drifting with seven survivors on board, an official with the UN’s migration agency said Tuesday.
18 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Haiti earthquake death toll rises to 1,941
The death toll from a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti has risen to 1,941 with more than 9,900 wounded, the Caribbean nation’s civil protection agency said on Tuesday.
18 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Libya govt says political adviser kidnapped this month freed
A chief of staff to a senior politician in Libya’s capital who was abducted earlier this month by armed men has been freed, according to images broadcast by the interim government.
18 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Massive Haiti Quake: Death toll jumps to over 1,200
The death toll from Haiti’s powerful earthquake jumped to over 1,200 yesterday, as crews desperately dug through collapsed buildings for survivors in the Caribbean nation still reeling from its president’s assassination.
16 August 2021, 18:00 PM
21 die in road accident in northern Nigeria
Twenty-one people were killed on Sunday in a road accident in Nigeria’s northern Jigawa state, police said.
16 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Gunmen kidnap 20 from Nigeria college
Gunmen have killed three people at an agricultural college in Nigeria’s northwest Zamfara state and kidnapped 20 others, including 15 students, the school said yesterday, in the latest in a wave of mass abductions.
16 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Canada’s Trudeau calls snap elections
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday announced snap elections for September 20 to seek a new mandate to steer the nation’s pandemic exit, much to the dismay of his rival parties.
15 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Nigeria imposes partial curfew after deadly attack
Nigerian authorities yesterday imposed a curfew in parts of central Plateau state, a day after a suspected Christian militia attacked a convoy of 90 Muslims, killing at least 23.
15 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Firefighters in Algeria still at work to extinguish 19 blazes
Algerian firefighters were struggling yesterday to put out 19 blazes in the north of the country, where 90 people were killed in wildfires this week.
15 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Swathes of Libya without water after sabotage threats
Libyan authorities have shut water supplies to swathes of the country after gunmen demanding the release of a jailed Gaddafi-era official threatened to sabotage the water network.
15 August 2021, 18:00 PM
I Coast’s first case of Ebola since 1994 of ‘immense concern’
Ivory Coast’s first recorded case of deadly Ebola disease in nearly three decades is of “immense concern”, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
15 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Forest fires rage in northern Morocco
Firefighters in northern Morocco are battling to put out two forest blazes, a forestries official said yesterday as the North African kingdom swelters in a heatwave.
15 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Quake in Haiti: Death toll rises to 724
The death toll in Haiti’s powerful earthquake jumped to over 700 yesterday as crews desperately dug through collapsed buildings for survivors in the Caribbean nation still reeling from its president’s assassination.
15 August 2021, 18:00 PM