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Thirty-nine people are believed to have been killed in a weekend ferry disaster in northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), local officials said on Tuesday.
Zimbabwe's parliament began a five-month session on Tuesday that will debate a bill giving President Robert Mugabe room to pick a successor if he were to retire and a proposal to localise...
The United Nations' (UN's) human rights office on Tuesday accused forces allied with Sudan's government of mass abduction and rape of women and girls in Darfur, acts it said could...
A remote-controlled landmine blew up a government vehicle in the Somali capital on Wednesday, killing at least five police officers and wounding three others, witnesses and a police source said.
Malawi's parliament began debating the annual budget on Wednesday without opposition deputies who boycotted the session in a row that is putting at risk donor aid and key services.
Kenya's main opposition coalition has split into two factions ahead of a presidential election in December, boosting President Mwai Kibaki's chances of re-election.
A key Darfur rebel leader said a viable peacekeeping force for the war-torn western Sudanese region must include non-Africans and toned down his conditions for joining peace talks.
At least 14 people have been killed and thousands of families forced to leave their homes by flash floods sweeping the central Nigerian state of Plateau, the Red Cross said on Tuesday.The flooding,...