Two protesters were shot dead by police in the Kenyan capital yesterday as unrest broke out after opposition claims of massive rigging in

At least 31 fishermen have been killed by Boko Haram jihadists in two separate attacks on islands in Lake Chad in northeastern Nigeria.

South African President Jacob Zuma yesterday survived a parliamentary vote of no confidence, as ruling ANC lawmakers stuck by their

Kenyans queued in large numbers to vote yesterday in an electoral showdown between the country's foremost political dynasties, as

Gunmen stormed a Catholic church in a town in southeast Nigeria early yesterday, killing 12 worshippers, hospital sources and witnesses said.

A South African man snatched from his hotel and held hostage by Al-Qaeda in Mali since 2011 has been freed, his country's foreign

At least five people were killed and ten wounded in Somalia's capital Mogadishu yesterday when a car bomb detonated on a busy road,

Zimbabwe's 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe, declaring "I am not dying," sought Saturday to brush aside growing concerns about

An ambulance carrying South Africa's first democratically elected president Nelson Mandela caught fire as it was rushing him to hospital,

Eight people were killed yesterday when a female suicide bomber detonated her explosives at a mosque in northeast Nigeria. The blast

Eight people were killed during Senegal's football league cup final in Dakar on Saturday, the sports minister told AFP, as a wall collapsed onto clashing supporters triggering a panicked stampede.

Two bombers blew themselves up in northeastern Cameroon killing 14 people and injuring 30 people in an attack likely staged by Boko

At least 15 people were killed when four female suicide bombers detonated their explosives in the northeast Nigerian

Rioting inmates at a Mexican prison slit their rivals' throats and beat them to death Thursday, leaving 28 dead in the latest

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.