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  Gunmen kill 13 in Senegal's Casamance region

  Reuters | Updated at 09:20am on January 07, 2018

  Gunmen shot dead 13 people and wounded seven others on Saturday in the forest of Senegal's southern region of Casamance, the army said...

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  Suicide bomber kills 11 people in mosque attack in Nigeria

  Reuters | Updated at 04:52pm on January 03, 2018

  A suicide bomber killed 11 people on Wednesday in an attack on a mosque in northeast Nigeria, the epicentre of the conflict with...

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  30 dead in central Kenya bus crash

  Agence France-Presse | Updated at 01:43pm on December 31, 2017

  Thirty people were killed and 16 injured early Sunday morning in a head-on collision between a bus and a lorry on a road in central...

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  Liberia's Weah under pressure to deliver after election win

  Reuters | Updated at 09:40am on December 30, 2017

  Now that George Weah has emphatically won Liberia's presidency, an even more daunting task awaits: delivering tangible benefits to expectant supporters in the face of...

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  Liberians hail victory of former football star Weah in landmark vote

  Agence France-Presse | Updated at 06:07pm on December 29, 2017

  Liberians on Friday feted former football star George Weah’s presidential victory in the country’s first democratic transfer of power in...

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  ‘Enigmatic’ ex-wife of South Africa's Zuma vies for power

  Agence France-Presse | Updated at 11:24am on December 16, 2017

  Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, a front-runner in the race for South Africa's ruling party leadership, faces difficulty distancing herself from her tarnished ex-husband president Jacob Zuma...

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  Suicide bomber kills at least 13 in police academy attack in Somali capital

  Reuters | Updated at 12:41pm on December 14, 2017

  A suicide bomber in police uniform blew himself up inside a police training camp in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Thursday, killing at least...

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  Rebels kill 15 peacekeepers in Congo

  Reuters | Updated at 10:04pm on December 08, 2017

  Suspected Ugandan rebels killed at least 15 Tanzanian UN peacekeepers and wounded 53 others in a raid on a base in Congo that UN secretary-general...

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  Suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers kill at least 13 in Nigeria

  Reuters | Updated at 06:42pm on December 02, 2017

  Suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers have killed at least 12 other people in an attack on a market in the northeast Nigerian town of Biu...

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  Report finds 512 died in deadliest Somalia bombing

  Agence France-Presse | Updated at 04:53pm on December 02, 2017

  As many as 512 died in an October truck bombing in the Somali capital Mogadishu, an emergency committee investigating the terrorist atrocity has found. An...