Champion rams fight in Nigeria for cash, glory – Working to bring ram fighting...
LAGOS: Champion ram King of Oils shows no visible signs of stress before his semi-final fight at the National Stadium in Lagos. The amber...
Doing time in ‘Hell’: Life in Sierra Leone rundown prisons
FREETOWN: A shaft of light penetrates the foul air through a fist-sized vent. It reveals naked, sweating bodies packed side-by-side like sardines, lying in...
Crowds hurl abuse at South African cannibalism suspects
ESTCOURT: Police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades to break up crowds hurling insults at a group of men accused of cannibalism in a...
Gunmen kill 14 churchgoers in brutal Nigeria shooting
WARRI: Gunmen killed at least 14 churchgoers returning from a midnight service on Monday in Nigeria's Rivers State, a police source told AFP, the...
Violence as Burundi votes with president seeking re-election – Voting amid gunfire and grenade...
BUJUMBURA: Burundians voted yesterday amid gunfire and grenade blasts, with President Pierre Nkurunziza widely expected to win a third term despite international condemnation and...
‘Breaking Bad’ Nigeria? Fear of a new narco-state
Drug trafficking is nothing new to Nigeria
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) officials stand on guard,...
Nigerian police say 8 Boko Haram suspects confess to Chibok abduction
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Eight suspected members of Islamist militant group Boko Haram have confessed to involvement in the 2014 abduction of some 270 girls from...
8 S African policemen jailed over Mozambican’s murder – Taxi driver dragged behind a...
JOHANNESBURG: Eight South African policemen were jailed yesterday for 15 years each for the murder of a Mozambican taxi driver who was dragged behind...
Gunmen attack headquarters of Libya National Oil Company
US to launch drone strikes in Niger against IS, Qaeda
TRIPOLI: Armed men yesterday stormed the headquarters of Libya's National Oil Company in Tripoli killing...
Tanzania buries disaster victims as toll hits 224
UKARA: Tanzania declared the whole nation was in mourning yesterday as the first dozen bodies were buried from a devastating ferry capsize on Lake...
South Sudan troops suffocated 50 people in a container
ADDIS ABABA: South Sudan government troops killed some 50 people by stuffing them into a shipping container in baking heat, ceasefire monitors have said...
Anti-Mugabe election coalition takes shape
HARARE: President Robert Mugabe's grip on power has faced little recent threat from Zimbabwe's splintered opposition, but efforts to forge a unified alliance in...
