Africa

CAIRO Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and UK National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell held talks in Cairo on Thursday to...

NAIROBI, Kenya African leaders ushered in the New Year with calls for peace and unity, focusing on the challenges confronting...

TUNIS, Tunisia Tunisian authorities retrieved the bodies of 27 irregular migrants after their boat capsized off the country’s eastern coast,...

GENEVA The UN human rights chief on Thursday hailed Zimbabwe's decision to abolish death penalty, urging all states that still...

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo Thirteen members of the Congolese armed forces were sentenced to death by a military court...

LILONGWE, Malawi Zimbabwe has announced that it has abolished death penalty in its statues nearly 20 years after it carried...

NAIROBI Some 1,316 people have died from cholera in Sudan since the disease's outbreak in the second week of August,...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso  French troops will withdraw from Ivory Coast in January, President Alassane Ouattara said Tuesday in his end...

KHARTOUM, Sudan Sudan's Sovereign Council leader has said a return to the pre-war status with the rival Rapid Support Forces...

The Nigerian government has issued a travel advisory warning Nigerians against travelling to Australia due to security threats prevalent in...