Japan’s Nagashiki Shipping said on Friday the grounding of one of its large bulk carriers that caused an ecological disaster in Mauritius was due to a lack of safety awareness and a failure to f...
Ethiopia offered a 10 million birr ($260 000) reward on Friday for information on the location of fugitive leaders of a rebellious force in the northern Tigray region. The money for helping capture he...
Dozens of schoolboys who were rescued from kidnappers in northwest Nigeria arrived back home on Friday, many of them barefoot and clutching blankets. The boys, dressed in dusty clothes and some in lig...
Former President of Burundi Pierre Buyoya is dead. Multiple sources from inside the country indicate that Buyoya died on Thursday. The cause of his death is unknown. He was 71. Buyoya led Burundi twic...
More than 300 schoolboys who had been kidnapped in northern Nigeria were handed over to government security agents on Thursday, the governor of Katsina state said. Governor Aminu Bello Masari said in ...