Bombs kill seven near Somali State House
Mortar shells wounded at least seven people in and around the presidential compound in Mogadishu, Somalia, while the Cabinet was meeting inside.
At least three...
Zuma fires SA finance minister
South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has sacked Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan after days of speculation that rocked the country's markets and currency.
Mr Gordhan will...
Buhari cancels London medical trip
President Muhammadu Buhari’s planned medical trip to London has been cancelled with reports indicating doctors will instead fly in from UK for further medical...
South African anti-apartheid icon Ahmed Kathrada dies
Anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada, who spent 26 years in jail – many of them alongside Nelson Mandela – for acts of sabotage against South Africa's white minority government,...
Gambia to probe Jammeh finances
Gambia has said it will probe the finances of former President Yahaya Jammeh, who fled into exile in January to Equatorial Guinea after a...
