Rwandans are expressing outrage after seven survivors of the country's genocide were reportedly killed this year. They are calling on President Paul Kagame's governm...
Further to a memorandum of understanding signed by the two countries in Khartoum last week, top National Oil Corporation of Kenya and directors are in Sudan to sign th...
Independent News and Media (INM), the publishing group which owns The Independent, reported healthy growth in the first half of the year, buoyed by positive trading in...
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kidnappers freed the head of the U.N. refugee agency's office in Somalia on Wednesday but rising insecurity forced Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) t...
LOBITO, Angola (Reuters) - On a recent Friday night, men in SUVs and others on mopeds line up outside one of the few gas stations in Angola's port city of Lobito to fi...
Sonya Grier, associate professor of marketing at American University's Kogod School of Business, was the lead researcher on the project. That's according to a...
Maamoun Youssef I AP TRIPOLI: Two hijackers, who commandeered a jetliner from Sudan’s Darfur region and diverted it to a remote desert airstrip in southern Libya, surr...
DPA NAIROBI: The joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur, UNAMID, has slammed the Sudanese government for killing dozens in a refugee camp in...
The dream of the biggest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), to wrestle power from the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the forth-coming Decem...
Somalia is moving more rapidly than expected into a serious humanitarian crisis, with an estimated 3.2 million people both in urban and rural areas facing extreme pove...
Flash floods following torrential rains in Ethiopia's Gambella regional state have spread to four woredas [districts] and displaced thousands more people, an official ...
Parts of eastern and southern Burundi are threatened with acute food shortages following low agricultural yields compounded by an influx of returning refugees, an offi...
Two hijackers who seized a Sudanese airliner flying from the Darfur region to the capital, Khartoum, have released the flight's 87 passengers in Libya, the Sudan Tribu...
The hijackers of a Sudanese plane Wednesday have begun releasing all the passengers of the plane at Libya's Al-Qafra airport, Libyan civil aviation officials said.
EMBATTLED Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe suffered more humiliation yesterday when opposition MPs jeered him and challenged his legitimacy at the opening of parliam...
Conditions for thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) camping on the outskirts of the Somali capital Mogadishu are getting worse, with malnutrition cases inc...
VICE-President, Rupiah Banda is among four prominent MMD members who have applied to stand on the party ticket to be floated for the Republican presidency for the fort...
The leaders of Kenya's two main political parties, ODM and PNU, will appear before the Waki commission investigating post-election violence on Wednesday.
In December 2007, unrest broke out in the diamond mining region of Kono in the east, between kimberlite mining corporation Koidu Holdings and locals in the lease area.
A powerful lobby group here has urged the South African government to oppose India's bid to buy nuclear fuel and technology when the issue comes up at the next meeting...
Liberian children deserve the opportunity to attend school, the top United Nations envoy to the West African nation said today, calling on families to make their child...
The head of the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) set up meetings today with the residents of a camp for internally displaced ...
Important progress has been made during the latest round of United Nations-led climate change talks in Accra, Ghana, on key issues relating to a new international agre...
The United Nations is assisting foreigners displaced by xenophobic violence which swept South Africa earlier this year to return to their home countries.
The United Nations refugee agency has welcomed the news that the head of its office in Somalia has been released today unharmed after two months in captivity in the wa...
