Brazil confiscate $16m from entourage of African leader's son

Brazilian officials have confiscated more than $16m worth of cash and luxury watches from a delegation accompanying the son of Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, local media has rep…

At least 23 dead after weekend of ethnic violence in Ethiopia

At least 23 people were killed in a weekend of violence targeting minorities in the ethnic Oromo heartland near the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, a police source said.The unrest followed a mass rall…

Police disperse protest with tear gas in Ethiopia

Police have fired tear gas in Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to disperse people in the wake of clashes between supporters of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and some residents of the city.Parts of …

U.S. says won't lift sanctions until Zimbabwe changes

The U.S. government will not lift sanctions against Zimbabwe until the new government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa demonstrates it is "changing its ways," a senior U.S. economic official told a co…

21 more bodies wash up as migrants try to reach Spain

The bodies of 21 people thought to be migrants trying to reach Spain have washed up on the shores of the Mediterranean this month, the U.N. migration agency said in statement on Friday.The latest dea…

South African pupil held 'for aiming gun at teacher'

A 15-year-old South African student has been arrested for allegedly pointing a firearm at a teacher in Johannesburg.The alleged incident took place at Eldorado Park Secondary School on Wednesday.It's…

France admits Algeria war 'system' led to torture

France admitted Thursday that it instigated a "system" that led to torture during Algeria's independence war, a conflict that remains hugely sensitive six decades on.President Emmanuel Macron is set …

Final farewell to UN's Kofi Annan at Ghana state funeral

World leaders past and present, traditional rulers and global royalty on Thursday joined the family of Kofi Annan, as the former UN secretary general's state funeral took place in his native Ghana.Hu…

Heroic Malian migrant dubbed 'Spiderman' for saving a baby becomes French citizen

The migrant hero nicknamed "Spiderman" for saving a child hanging off a balcony by scaling a Paris apartment block with his bare hands has become a French citizen, according to a government decree.Ni…

Ethiopia-Eritrea land borders reopen after 20 years

Two land border crossings between Ethiopia and Eritrea were reopened on Tuesday for the first time in 20 years, crowning a rapid reconciliation between the former bitter enemies.Ethiopia's Prime Mini…

At least 100 migrants drown off Libyan coast

More than 100 migrants died in a shipwreck off the Libyan coastline earlier this month, an aid agency says.According to Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) two rubber boats set off on 1 September, but one…

Ethiopia and Italian airlines narrowly avoids mid-air collision over Kenya airspace

What would have been the world's worst aviation accident was averted at the last minute as two passenger planes almost collided with each other in the Kenyan airspace last monthThe incident involving…

Libya's National Oil Corporation headquarters attacked by gunmmen

An armed group is reported to have stormed the headquarters of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) in Libya's capital, Tripoli.Security forces clashed with the armed men at the landmark building in th…

Suicide car bomb kills at least six in Somali capital

A suicide car bomb rammed into a local government office in Somalia's capital on Monday, killing at least six people in an attack claimed by al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab.A loud blast destroyed the offi…

Preliminary reports says Ethiopian dam engineer Simegnew Bekele 'killed himself'

A preliminary report has found that Ethiopian engineer Simegnew Bekele - who was in charge of the country's $4.7bn (?3.1bn) hydroelectric dam project - took his own life, state linked Fana Broadcasti…

Kenya to deport Chinese man over 'racist rant'

Kenya has arrested a Chinese businessman after a video of him making a string of racist remarks was widely shared on social media, the government said on Thursday.The Chinese national, identified as …

South Sudan miltary court jails 10 soldiers for raping aid workers and murder

A South Sudanese military court on Thursday sentenced 10 soldiers to prison for the rape of foreign aid workers and the murder of a journalist in an assault on a hotel in Juba in 2016, and ordered th…

Al Shabaab kill soldiers, kidnap scores of elders in Somalia

Gunmen from Somalia's Al Shabaab group killed six people including at least four soldiers in the streets of the capital, a day after the Islamist movement kidnapped scores of elders in a central regi…

US embassy lockdown after Cairo 'blast'

Egyptian security forces detained a man on Tuesday after an explosive device detonated near the U.S. Embassy in central Cairo, three security sources said.No casualties were reported, the sources sai…

DR Congo's opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba gets definite ban from presidential race

Democratic Republic of Congo's top court has definitively excluded opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba from December's presidential election because of a witness tampering conviction at the Internati…