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-- 2022-09-05 16:22:00
Flash floods in Sudan have killed 12 more people died over the past week, a Sudanese official said Monday, bringing the death toll since the start of the rainy season in May to 112. Brig. Gen. Abdul-...
REUTERS 2022-09-05 15:32:42
Famine will occur in parts of Somalia between October and December, the United Nations warned on Monday, as a drought worsens and global food prices hover near record highs. "Famine is at the door,"...
REUTERS 2022-09-03 14:20:38
Gunmen killed at least 42 people in Ethiopia's Oromiya region, two residents who buried the bodies in mass graves said on Friday, the latest killings in the country's most populous region where...
REUTERS 2022-08-28 10:06:43
Rival factions battled across Libya's capital on Saturday in the worst fighting there in two years as a months-long political standoff burst into urban warfare that threatens to escalate into a wider...
-- 2022-08-27 17:05:57
Lying on a small bed next to her mother, 14-month-old Aisha Usman stares blankly, her eyes sunk in their sockets and rib cage visible. She is the latest arrival at a treatment centre for severely mal...
-- 2022-08-24 16:59:10
A series of violent crimes against women in Egypt has drawn attention to gaps in legal and social protections that leave female citizens vulnerable to attacks and harassment, victims and activists say...
-- 2022-08-21 19:47:27
Somali forces have ended a deadly siege at a hotel in the capital Mogadishu which saw more than 20 people killed and dozens of hostages freed, authorities said on Sunday. Elite armed forces in the Ho...
-- 2022-08-20 13:18:54
At least 12 people have been killed in Somalia's capital Mogadishu after al Shabaab militants attacked a hotel leading to a siege that authorities are still trying to end, an intelligence officer said...
-- 2022-08-20 11:35:25
Unidentified armed attackers have taken control of a hotel in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, following two car bomb blasts and gunfire, police and intelligence officers said on Friday. "Two car bombs...
-- 2022-08-16 09:50:40
In the rolling red hills outside the western Kenyan town of Eldoret, residents remember William Ruto as a barefoot schoolboy who used to sell chickens at a roadside stall, Reuters reports. Even...
-- 2022-08-14 18:28:32
At least 41 people were killed and 14 others injured in a fire at a church in the city of Giza, near Cairo, Egypt’s Coptic Church said – citing the health ministry. Egypt’s health m...
REUTERS 2022-08-14 11:11:07
Veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga led Kenya's presidential race, official election results showed on Saturday, pushing Deputy President William Ruto into second place. With just over 26 pe...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-08-12 20:50:54
Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio has described recently deadly anti-government protests in the country as acts of terrorism instigated by agitators living abroad, reports BBC. According to R...
REUTERS 2022-08-12 14:33:54
At least five people were killed and 100 injured in Somalia's breakaway Somaliland region when security forces clashed with protesters demanding presidential elections be held in November, a reg...
REUTERS 2022-08-10 15:02:47
Supplies of a vaccine to prevent the deadly rotavirus infection in children have either run out in Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal and Cameroon or are close to doing so, officials close to the roll-out told...
REUTERS 2022-08-08 12:53:58
Chad's transitional authorities and rebel groups signed a peace agreement in Doha on Monday ahead of a broad national reconciliation dialogue later this month. The agreement also included the partici...
-- 2022-08-05 14:43:49
Nigeria asked Google to block the use of YouTube channels and livestreams by banned groups and terrorist organizations in the country, Information Minister Lai Mohammed said on Thursday. Nigeria has...
-- 2022-08-02 19:03:40
At least seven people were killed and another two injured in an armed attack in central Nigeria's Plateau state on Sunday night, according to the state police. Alfred Alabo, police spokesperson in Pl...
-- 2022-08-02 17:37:22
A child who contracted the highly infectious Ebola-like Marburg virus in Ghana has died, a World Health Organization official said on Tuesday. The death brings the total number of fatalities in the c...
-- 2022-08-02 16:52:41
South Africa has seen an increase in the number of rhinos illegally killed for their horns in the first half of 2022, as poachers shifted to hunting in private parks, the country's environment ministr...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-31 13:46:28
At least 32 people were killed in Madagascar in an area north of the capital on Friday after local bandits known as "dahalo" set homes on fire, according to statements by the defence ministry. The ki...
REUTERS 2022-07-29 15:12:34
Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood will not launch a new struggle for power with authorities which toppled it from government nine years ago, even though the movement still claims wide support, its a...
REUTERS 2022-07-27 14:01:32
A member of parliament fined $7 million for corruption and handed a 67-year jail term; a top civil servant with an asset seizure order against her; lawmakers convicted of bribery, economic crimes and...
-- 2022-07-25 14:17:01
At least 24 people died in central Kenya when their bus veered off a bridge and plunged into a river valley, media reported on Monday. The Daily Nation and Standard newspapers reported that the incid...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-22 12:46:45
At least 18 people died on Thursday during a major police raid in a dense warren of Rio de Janeiro slums, state military police said, in the latest bloody confrontation in Brazil's second-largest city...
-- 2022-07-19 16:41:18
At least 23 people were killed and 30 injured when a bus collided with a truck near the Egyptian city of Minya early on Tuesday, the regional governor's office said in a statement. The injured were t...
-- 2022-07-17 19:19:55
Police are on the hunt for suspects after nine people were fatally shot in separate shootings in two provinces of South Africa on Saturday night, police said on Sunday, reports Reuters. The latest sl...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-16 18:58:55
At least 31 people were killed in tribal clashes in a Sudanese southern province, authorities said, the latest bloodshed in a country in turmoil since an October military coup. The fighting between t...
-- 2022-07-13 15:07:00
Ivory Coast on Tuesday demanded the release of 49 of its soldiers arrested in Mali, an incident that may worsen tensions between Mali's military rulers and other West African nations amid efforts to q...
-- 2022-07-11 16:49:33
Seventeen bodies have been recovered in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos after a boat accident that led to a frantic search for passengers, the inland waterways agency said. The commuter boat...
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