Three demobilised ex-rebel fighters were killed in Ivory Coast's second-biggest city of Bouake on Tuesday, as they clashed with police attempting to end their protest over bonus payments, the Interior Ministry and a spokesman for the fighters said.
The ministry...
While the whole world media and governments are fixated with the conflict in Syria. A Norwegian aid group working in the Democratic Republic of Congo has said that, conflict has forced at least 1.5 million people to flee their homes within...
Gambian authorities have seized assets including 86 bank accounts and 131 properties linked to former president Yahya Jammeh, an official said on Monday, as an investigation into the veteran ruler's wealth gathers pace.
The new government has accused Jammeh of...
Tunisian security forces fired tear gas on Monday to disperse hundreds of protesters trying to take over a gas pumping station, as weeks of unrest over jobs and funding in the country's southern provinces escalated into violence.
Protesters briefly forced...
An attack on an airbase in south Libya has killed 141 people, mostly soldiers loyal to military strongman Khalifa Haftar, a spokesman for his forces said on Friday.
Members of the Third Force militia loyal to the UN-backed Government of...
Gunmen looted humanitarian compounds as fighting gripped the Central African Republic town of Bria while more than 20,000 people have fled to a nearby U.N. peacekeeping base, authorities said Friday.
Concerns are mounting that sectarian violence is again spiraling out...
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Friday appealed for 92 million U.S. dollars to alleviate the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Somalia.
ICRC Global Director of Operations Dominik Stillhart told a media briefing in Nairobi that up to...
More than 70 inmates broke out of a prison in southwestern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday, a local activist and a national deputy said, two days after thousands escaped from the capital's main penitentiary.
Prison breaks are relatively common...
Angola's opposition called on the government on Friday to reveal the state of President Jose Eduardo dos Santos' health amid reports that Africa's second-longest ruler is seriously ill at a hospital in Spain.
The 74-year-old dos Santos, who has run...
Ghana's deputy sports minister Pius Hadzide on Friday condemned the racist attack on former Black Stars midfielder Sulley Muntari who plays for Pescara in the Italian Serie A, calling on the Italian FA to take firm unbiased and fair...
Eritrea government has "categorically rejected’’ accusations that its troops fighting in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region killed hundreds of people...