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
100 migrants rescued from desert in Niger
Around 100 Libya-bound migrants, including women, have been rescued from the Sahara desert in Niger after being
14 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Zimbabwe bus crash kills 43 people: police
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
8 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Boko Haram kills 11 in Nigeria attacks
Eleven people were killed when Boko Haram gunmen and suicide bombers launched a rare combined attack inside the strategic northeast
8 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Child suicide bombers kill nine in Cameroon
Two children, between 10 and 15 year, carrying explosives blew themselves up on Friday near a camp in northern Cameroon housing
3 June 2017, 18:00 PM
44 migrants, including babies, die of 'thirst' in Niger desert
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.
1 June 2017, 14:40 PM
Ailing Buhari absent from Nigeria party
Nigeria's ailing president was glaringly absent yesterday as his deputy marked their two years in power, with no word on the head of
29 May 2017, 18:00 PM
South Africa's Zuma survives calls to resign
South African President Jacob Zuma survived fresh calls within the ruling ANC party for him to resign, party officials said yesterday, as
29 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Sudan's Bashir to skip Trump-Muslim summit
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, will not join an Islamic summit in Saudi Arabia
19 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Macron visits French troops in Mali
President Emmanuel Macron arrived yesterday in conflict-torn Mali to visit French troops fighting jihadists on his first official trip outside
19 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Ebola outbreak declared in DR Congo: WHO
An Ebola outbreak has been declared in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization said
12 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Four UN peacekeepers killed in C Africa
Three more UN peacekeepers have been found dead after an attack on a convoy in the Central African Republic, UN
10 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Brazil's Lula faces corruption court
Brazil's former leftist president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, backed by hundreds of red-shirted supporters, was due in
10 May 2017, 18:00 PM
7,000 migrants detained in Libya
Between 7,000 and 8,000 migrants mostly from sub-Saharan Africa are being held in Libyan detention centres after
10 May 2017, 18:00 PM
S Sudan child refugees top one million: UN
War has now forced more than one million children to flee South Sudan and uprooted 1.4 million others within the
8 May 2017, 18:00 PM
35 killed in school bus crash in Tanzania
Thirty-two schoolchildren, two teachers and a minibus driver where killed in Tanzania when their vehicle plunged into
7 May 2017, 18:00 PM
35 killed in Tanzania school minibus crash
Thirty-two schoolchildren, two teachers and a minibus driver are killed in Tanzania when their vehicle plunged into a roadside ravine in the northern tourist region of Arusha, a senior police official says.
7 May 2017, 07:15 AM
Five dead in suicide attack in Nigeria
Five people were killed in two suicide bombings in northeast Nigeria, police said yesterday, in the latest attacks blamed
5 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Forces mistakenly kill Somali minister
Somalia's minister of public works and reconstruction Abbas Abdullahi Siraji, 31, was killed in Mogadishu on Wednesday in what was
4 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Nigeria's leader urged to take medical leave
Nigerian civil society activists called on President Muhammadu Buhari to take long-term medical leave yesterday,
2 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Obama did everything to beat me
Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan has blamed Barack Obama for his 2015 presidential election defeat to Muhammadu
27 April 2017, 18:00 PM