More than 70 members of the Al Shabaab militia group have been killed, after they reportedly attacked a Kenya Defence Force base in a remote region of Somalia. Read more »
President Mohamed Mursi has reaffirmed the people's right to protest after an outcry over comments made by al-Azhar Fatwa Committee member Sheikh Hashem Islam calling for the death ... Read more »
Protests by the country's Muslim community in the capital, Addis Ababa, have prompted a crackdown by Ethiopian police and security services. Read more »
The costs of collection for e-tolling should not have been examined without considering the cost of the entire project, the Constitutional Court hears. Read more »
President Jacob Zuma has appointed Justice Raymond Mnyamezeli Mlungisi Zondo as a Constitutional Court judge with effect from 1 September. Read more »
The ruling party says it should not be blamed for opposition party leader's arrest. Hichilema was arrested when he appeared in Lusaka Magistrate's court on charges of publishing ... Read more »
A shipping container suspected to be carrying high-grade cocaine from the Netherlands to Mombassa is presumed to have disappeared, after police discovered a container full of ... Read more »
The Rwandan chief of police, the army commander and the head of the intelligence services are now allowed to monitor the communications of anyone suspected of threatening national ... Read more »
The company behind the construction of a U.S.$100 million mall has argued that the construction site is not wetland after reports of complaints from residents. Read more »
Following an attack by gunmen in Western Cote d'Ivoire, the Liberian government has announced that it arrested six men fleeing a counter offensive by Ivorian troops. Read more »
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