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-- 2018-03-05 12:11:33
South Africans have been advised not to consume ready-to-eat processed meat after the government identified the source of a listeria outbreak that has killed 180 people as a cold meat product made by...
-- 2018-03-04 13:01:25
The undergoing tribal fighting beginning from last week prompted displacement of up to 120 families in Libya's southern city of Sabha, the city government revealed on Saturday. The government of Sabh...
-- 2018-03-04 11:27:03
The United Nations has suspended aid operations helping tens of thousands of people in north-eastern Nigeria after an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants left three humanitarian workers dead. At...
-- 2018-03-03 14:08:39
Libyan security forces have arrested five members of Islamic State (IS) involved in bombings and suicide attacks, the Libyan Interior Ministry said. The ministry said that the militants were "plannin...
-- 2018-03-03 10:32:28
A fresh outbreak of ethnic violence has killed more than 33 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said. Clashes erupted between the Hema and Lendu communities in the north-eastern p...
-- 2018-03-01 12:03:54
Rwandan government has closed down more than 700 churches for causing noise pollution and failing to meet the requirements of the building regulations. Most of them are small Pentecostal churches. On...
-- 2018-02-28 23:03:37
Nigeria's security forces have been ordered to defend all schools in "liberated areas" of the country's northeast to avoid further mass abductions from schools by Boko Haram extremists, the president'...
-- 2018-02-28 20:48:01
At least 15 people died in a train collision in northern Egypt on Wednesday. Another 40 people were hurt in the collision between a freight train and a passenger train in Beheira province. Egypt's h...
-- 2018-02-28 13:31:28
South Africa’s parliament passed a motion brought by the radical left party, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), to carry out land expropriation without compensation, a key pillar of the ruling ANC...
-- 2018-02-27 10:59:46
New South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced his cabinet, making substantial changes to ministerial positions. He reappointed Nhlanhla Nene as finance minister, reversing his sacking by...
-- 2018-02-26 11:21:59
Nigeria has deployed extra troops and planes to search for 110 schoolgirls believed to have been abducted by Boko Haram militants last week. The girls went missing after jihadists stormed their schoo...
-- 2018-02-25 13:43:15
The UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan has recalled a Ghanaian police unit working at one of its protection camps while it investigates allegations that some of them were involved in sexual abuse,...
-- 2018-02-24 20:37:20
Nigeria’s oil-rich Bayelsa state is threatening parents who do not make sure their children go to school with jail terms. The state signed the new law into the books amid concerns children were...
-- 2018-02-24 17:15:01
The death toll from twin car bomb blasts in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, has risen to 45 from the initially reported 18. Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militants claimed responsibility for the attack o...
-- 2018-02-24 10:44:44
A double car bombing in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu killed at least 18 people and injured 20 others on Friday, said officials. They said the attacks were carried out by the Islamist militant gr...
-- 2018-02-23 14:00:01
In the decades before oil was discovered in the northern Kenyan region of Turkana South, 100,000 poor villagers living in arid scrubland relied on a lone church-run health centre in Lokichar town fo...
-- 2018-02-22 19:23:24
An Egyptian court has sentenced 21 people to death and seven others to up to life in prison on terrorism-related charges. Thursday's verdict, reported by the state-run MENA news agency, can be appeal...
-- 2018-02-22 10:27:59
The Nigerian military rescued 76 schoolgirls and recovered the bodies of two others on Wednesday, after the students went missing during a Boko Haram attack on a village, three parents, a resident and...
-- 2018-02-21 21:26:00
More than 90 Nigerian schoolgirls are feared missing after Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram attacked a village in the northeastern state of Yobe, two sources told Reuters on Wednesday. Their disap...
-- 2018-02-21 17:21:55
Five police officers and a soldier have been shot dead during a raid on their station in South Africa's Eastern Cape province Umtata. The South African Government News Agency, in a statement said thr...
-- 2018-02-21 11:08:23
More than 5,000 people have attended the burial of Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in his home village after he died of colon cancer. The burial was marred by divisions in the party he...
-- 2018-02-20 10:42:20
Nigerian local police have arrested three people suspected to have masterminded an attack which led to the killing of at least 36 villagers in the north-western state of Zamfara last week. Kenneth Em...
-- 2018-02-19 20:52:05
The Gambia's President has announced suspension of the death penalty as the West African country seeks to rebuild its international standing following the removal of its authoritarian ruler last year....
-- 2018-02-19 20:40:25
At least 17 people have been killed on Monday after heavy rains caused the partial collapse of a rubbish dump in Mozambique. A 15-metre high pile of rubbish collapsed, destroying seven houses, and re...
FE Online Desk 2018-02-19 17:54:38
Three members of the controversial Oxfam Haiti team that was under investigation for sexual exploitation and other breaches physically threatened a colleague to ensure that person’s silence The...
-- 2018-02-19 11:06:45
Oxfam's country director in Haiti admitted to using prostitutes at his residence during a relief mission before resigning in 2011, according to an internal investigation into allegations of sexual mis...
-- 2018-02-19 10:55:16
A court in Egypt has sentenced 65 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group to prison over inciting anti-state riots, protests and violence. Prosecutors say the group was caught with inflammator...
-- 2018-02-18 13:03:53
The Ethiopian defence minister has said the newly imposed state of emergency will last for six months as authorities seek to tamp down unrest in the Horn of Africa country. The country’s Counci...
-- 2018-02-17 15:16:01
Three suicide bombers have killed 18 people in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, capital of the state worst hit by the Boko Haram insurgency, its police commissioner said on Saturday. Damian...
-- 2018-02-17 10:39:52
Ethiopia declared a state of emergency just a day after Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn announced his intention to step down amid a political turmoil in the Horn of Africa country. The ruling EPR...
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