Somali police and international navies were preparing this Monday to attack a commercial ship that was hijacked by pirates last week, the Puntland region's police force said, two days after Indian commandos rescued another cargo vessel held by pirate
The South African (SA) President, Cyril Ramaphosa, has acknowledged that while there is progress to make, there are also strides that government has made in the advancement of Human Rights.
Men in army uniform ransacked and burned homes in Nigeria's oil-producing Delta State days after youths killed 16 soldiers sent there to resolve a land dispute, residents said, but the defence chief denied military involvement.
Gunmen in Nigeria have kidnapped at least 87 people, including women and children in Kaduna State, residents and police said on Monday, in a fresh attack after an armed gang seized 286 students and staff from a school in early March.
Gambian lawmakers were due this Monday to vote on a proposal to repeal a ban on female genital mutilation (FGM), which if approved would mark a rare setback for efforts to criminalise the practice.
Burkina Faso reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a farm located in its capital Ouagadougou, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said this Monday.
Spanish police have arrested three people over the deaths of five migrants who were deliberately forced off a speedboat last November, just off an Atlantic ocean beach in Cadiz in southern Spain, the Interior Ministry said this Monday.
Residents of the Zimbabwean village of Buhera stood in groups at a primary school waiting to be called by name to receive life-saving handouts of grain, peas and cooking oil.