The Sudanese army said on Sunday that it had broken a nearly two-year siege imposed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on El Obeid, capital of North Kordofan state, linking its forces adva ...

Medical and humanitarian charity, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is flagging security around the city of Uvira, in South Kivu province of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ...

South Africa football legend Benni McCarthy is expected to be appointed Kenya\'s national team head coach following his departure from Manchester United where he served as an assistant coach ...

Niger\'s military junta has extended the transition to democratic rule as it rewrites the rules and consolidates power, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has reported ...

The Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU) in Libya has rejected calls by the Speaker of the eastern-based House of Representatives to stop dealing with the internationally-recognised Govern ...

The US and Kenya have called for an immediate ceasefire in the war in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as the fighting rages on with the Rwanda-backed M23 pushing on and taking more territor ...

A worker of humanitarian charity, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has died from gunshot wounds he sustained at its base in Masisi town, North Kivu, during clashes between the VDP/Wazalendo and the M23 ...

The recent attack on a United Nations patrol in the Central African Republic (CAR), in which a Tunisian peacekeeper was killed, is emblematic of the continuing threat posed by armed groups in the Cent ...

Dozens of people have died, and over 800 are being treated for symptoms of acute watery diarrhoea, dehydration, vomiting, and sunken eyes at the Ministry of Health cholera treatment centre in Kosti Te ...

The African Development Bank Group has taken a major step forward in its fight against corruption and financial crime by signing a Letter of Intent with the International Criminal Police Organizati ...

Five candidates have been cleared to contest May\'s election to choose a new president for the African Development Bank (AfDB) ...

The latest round of a large-scale polio vaccination campaign in Gaza targeting nearly 600,000 young children got underway on Saturday, UN News reported ...