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The security forces in Uganda have been making special efforts to ensure that an area targeted in a twin suicide bomb attack this morning was free from 'explosives. Hence, the  search at targeted area in Kampala for likely…

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday declared four days of national mourning for South Africa's last white President FW de Klerk, who died on Thursday at his home in Cape Town after battling cancer. De Klerk, who…

Tunisia to implement deals reached with UGTT Tunisian employment minister, Nassreddine Nsibi says the government is committed to implementing any deals it reaches with the country's powerful 'UGTT' union, such as the minimum…

The Ethiopian government has released about half of the UN's contracted aid drivers arrested last week, according to a UN spokesman. At a briefing in New York, Farhan Haq said on Monday that "34 drivers had been released but 36…

The authorities in Kenya have placed a bounty on three "armed and dangerous" inmates who escaped from a prison where they were being held on terrorism-related charges. The three are Mohamed Ali Abikar, Musharaf Abdalla, and…

At least 58 inmates have been killed in fierce clashes in a prison in Ecuador’s largest city of Guayaquil, according to police. Police General Tannya Varela told reporters on Saturday that an additional 12 prisoners were wounded in the…

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in the Sudanese capital Khartoum and other cities on Saturday to protest against a military takeover, despite security forces firing tear gas and bullets to disperse them, witnesses and medics…

South Africa's last apartheid-era President, Frederik Willem, FW, de Klerk, whose role in the country's transition from white-minority rule to democracy remains hotly contested, has died aged 85. Here is what the country's…

South Africa's second-biggest opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters, EFF, says that FW de Klerk should not be given a state funeral as he led an "evil regime" which enforced racial discrimination in the country until its…

South Africa's last white President Dies South Africa's last white head of state, FW de Klerk, has died at the age of 85 after losing his battle against cancer. Mr. De Klerk shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela in 1993 for…