Africa

Militants kill 9 students in Nigerian school attack

9 hours 13 min ago

Suspected Islamic militants Boko Haram opened fire on students in the middle of their exams in the second deadly attack on schools in three days

Bloody crime scene photos upset Pistorius family

03 June

JOHANNESBURG — Oscar Pistorius is “battling” with his grief for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, his uncle said yesterday (June 2), while the athlete’s family criticised the...

Ethiopian leader accuses international court of racial bias

28 May

ADDIS ABABA (Ethiopia) — Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, the current Chairman of the African Union (AU), yesterday (May 27) accused the International Criminal...

Kenya: UK soldier killing suspect arrested in 2010

26 May

NAIROBI (Kenya) — A suspect in the savage killing of a British soldier on a London street was arrested in Kenya in 2010 near the East African country’s border with Somalia, an...

Coronavirus claims first life in Tunisia

22 May

TUNIS — A 66-year-old Tunisian man has died from new coronavirus, a strain of a virus that emerged in the Middle East last year, after a visit to Saudi Arabia, the health...

Libya war weapons may be killing central Africa elephants : UN

21 May

UNITED NATIONS — Armed groups in central Africa are using powerful weapons, some of which may be left over from the civil war in Libya, to kill elephants for their ivory, the...