Nigeria's incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari has surged to an early lead in election returns, winning six of 36 states in Africa's largest democracy, while...
Nigerians awoke on Saturday to find that the country’s presidential election had been delayed until February 23 because of what the electoral commission called...
Dozens of Zimbabwean workers are missing after torrential rain flooded mines while they were underground.
State broadcaster ZBC said that 38 miners were trapped while...
Up to 117 migrants might have died when a rubber dinghy capsized in the Mediterranean off Libya, survivors said.
Flavio Di Giacomo, of the International...
Zimbabwe’s government has again forced a “total internet shutdown” after a violent crackdown on people protesting against fuel price increases, a media group has...
Judges at the International Criminal Court have acquitted former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo of crimes committed following disputed elections in 2010.
The court in...
A suspected case of the deadly Ebola virus has been reported by a Swedish hospital, officials said, adding the patient has been isolated.
Region Uppsala,...
