Gambian president Adama Barrow announced that he was suspending of the use of the death penalty in the country on Sunday, February 18 while giving an...
Category - Africa
South African president Jacob Zuma announced on Wednesday February 12 that he would be resigning “with immediate effect” in a rare news conference...
All 955 gold miners that were trapped in the Beatrix mine in Theunissen, South Africa – about 180 miles southwest of Johannesburg – were freed unharmed...
A 'large number' of United Nations peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been killed and wounded in an attack, according to Jean-Pierre...
Political unrest in Zimbabwe has prompted an increasing military presence in an attempt to remedy the “country’s suffering,” according to a statement made by a...
358 people were killed and 228 people were injured in Somalia’s largest-ever truck bomb attack around 3:25 p.m. local time on Saturday, October 14th. The death...
A gasoline tanker at a gas station exploded and appears to have caused a second explosion around 7:30 p.m. local time in Legon, Ghana, causing a fireball which...
Sierra Leone's president said his country needs “urgent support now” after thousands of people were affected by flash flooding and mudslides near Freetown
Over the past two days, smugglers have forced around 300 of people traveling on boats to Yemen into the water, causing many people to drown, the United Nations...
Two pilots have died following the crash of a German army helicopter assigned to the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA)