BUJUMBURA: A policeman and an opposition official died in violence at the start of Burundi's presidential election Tuesday, held amid protests over President...
BUJUMBURA: At least 70 people have died in Burundi since clashes erupted between security forces and activists protesting against President Pierre...
KAMPALA: Uganda's opposition said Wednesday they had formed a coalition to back one presidential candidate in next year's election, a move analysts say will...
BUJUMBURA, Burundi: A senior U.S. diplomat told Burundi's President, Pierre Nkurunziza, on Thursday that the east African country risks boiling over if it...
ADDIS ABABA: The International Criminal Court (ICC) has become a "political instrument", Ethiopia's foreign minister said on Friday, opening a meeting at...
NAIROBI: Kenya’s president said Tuesday that his forces had “defeated” Islamists from Somalia’s Al-Shabab, had shot five of them dead and detained 11 others...
NAIROBI: Kenya's president said on Tuesday that his forces had "defeated" Islamists from Somalia's al Shabaab, had shot five of them dead...
NAIROBI: Islamist militants were holding hostages on Sunday at a shopping mall in Nairobi, where at least 68 people were killed in an attack by the Somali al...
CAIRO: When Egyptians poured onto the streets in their millions to demand the fall of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, few thought they would return two years...
CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood said on Thursday it had proposed through an EU go-between a framework for talks to resolve Egypt's political crisis, its first...
CAIRO: Egyptian tycoon Naguib Sawiris, whose family controls the sprawling Orascom corporate empire, says he and his brothers will be “investing in...
NAIROBI: Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta took his oath of office on Tuesday, presenting Western states with a challenge of how to deal with a leader indicted...
NAIROBI: Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's founding president, won the presidential election by the slimmest of margins with 50.03 percent, provisional...
CAIRO/BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Egypt's Islamist president on Wednesday to open a dialogue with all political forces in the crisis-ridden...
CAIRO: Egypt’s pound weakened further against the dollar at the central bank’s foreign exchange auction Tuesday on worries that turmoil on the...
CAIRO: A man was shot dead on Monday in a fifth day of violence that has killed 50 Egyptians and prompted the Islamist president to declare a state of...
CAIRO: Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi declared a month-long state of emergency in three cities on the Suez Canal, where dozens of people have been killed in...
CAIRO: Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi declared a month-long state of emergency on Sunday in three cities along the Suez Canal which have been the focus of...
CAIRO: About 200 people marched on Sunday in the streets of Ismailia, east of Egypt's capital, shortly after President Mohamed Mursi declared a state of...
CAIRO: Egypt's vice-president resigned on Saturday as Egyptians voted in a referendum that is expected to approve a new constitution that lays the...
CAIRO: President Mohammad Mursi now seems assured of pushing through Egypt’s new, distinctly Islamist constitution – but by a margin slim enough to embolden...
CAIRO: With a bust of Egypt’s former President Gamal Abdel-Nasser in his office, opposition politician Hamdeen Sabahy has a knack for the kind of rousing...
CAIRO: Tens of thousands of Egyptian protesters surged around President Mohamed Mursi's palace in Cairo on Friday after breaking through barbed wire...
CAIRO: A coalition of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups called on Saturday for a referendum on a draft constitution to go ahead on time on Dec....
CAIRO: Tens of thousands of Egyptian protesters surged around the presidential palace on Friday and the opposition rejected President Mohamed Mursi's call...