At least five people were injured Thursday when several gun shots were fired by unidentified men in a popular mall in South Africa’s Bedforview town, a media report said. It was not immediately clear what ...

Angry residents are blocking access for health workers to dozens of remote villages in Guinea, in a sign of persistent mistrust that could threaten President Alpha Conde’s aim to eradicate Ebola from the country by ...

A suspected suicide car bomb attack hit a hotel near the presidential palace in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Thursday, causing casualties, police and witnesses said. The attack, which bore the hallmarks of the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab ...

UN employee kidnapped in capital of C. African Republic, says source Armed men kidnapped a female UN employee in the capital of the strife-torn Central African Republic on Tuesday, a day after two aid workers ...

An Egyptian court trying demonstrators for holding an unauthorized protest forged evidence at its latest hearing, a prominent Egyptian activist and the sister of one of the defendants said on Saturday. Mona Seif, the sister ...

An Egyptian court’s call for a retrial of three jailed Al Jazeera journalists acknowledges major flaws in the original convictions but leaves the men in unjust incarceration, Amnesty International said today. “By calling for a ...

The conflict in South Sudan has seriously hampered the protection of children, increasing their vulnerability dramatically, says a new report published this week by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The first report of the Secretary-General ...

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has condemned a series of airstrikes on targets in the city of Misrata amid an upsurge in fighting across the war-torn North African country, adding that any ...

Gunmen have attacked the African Union’s main base in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, leading to an exchange of gunfire between armed men and soldiers that left nine people killed. Among the dead in Thursday’s attack ...