FRANCE is ready to stop Islamist militants who control northern Mali if they continue their offensive, French President Francois Hollande has said.

However, Mr Hollande said France would only act under UN authorisation.

He was responding to a...

KENYA’S high court has ordered that the date for the switch off of the analogue television signal be delayed, preferably until after the March poll.

Justice Isaac Lenaola said an immediate move to digital would be unfair to Kenyans keen to...

HUNDREDS of Tunisian protesters demanding jobs and the reopening of a border crossing with Libya set fire to a police station and cars, and police used teargas and fired shots into the air to disperse them on Friday, a Reuters witness...

KENYAN officials Wednesday announced the killing of nine people in the latest unrest in south-eastern part of the country, raising concern over security less than two months before the first polls since deadly post-electoral violence five years...

PRESIDENT John Dramani Mahama has pledged to focus on development and unite all Ghanaians as the nation’s opposition boycotted his inauguration ceremony, agency reports indicated.

The opposition had ignored Mahama’s appeals to end a dispute...

THE leaders of Sudan and South Sudan are to meet to address disputes that brought them close to war following the South’s independence in 2011. President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan and Salva Kiir of South Sudan are set to discuss speeding up the...

KANAYO F. Nwanze, President of  International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) President Jane Karuku called for a continued global push for increased smart investments in Africa’s...

South African mountain bike star Burry Stander, who narrowly missed out on a medal at the London Olympics, has been killed in a road accident.

Stander, 25, was on a training ride when he was hit Thursday by a vehicle in Shelly Beach, on the...

A Kenyan man has been charged after allegedly pretending to be an assistant commissioner of police for five years. Joshua Waiganjo is said to have sacked and recruited police officers in Rift Valley province during this time.

BBC reported that he...

COTE d’Ivoire has declared three days of mourning following a New Year’s Eve stampede that killed about 61 people in Abidjan.

Many people were crushed and others suffocated after hundreds of people leaving a fireworks event at a stadium in...

CENTRAL African Republic’s (CAR) rebels Monday renewed a threat to enter the capital, Bangui, joining the political opposition in voicing scepticism over President Francois Bozize‘s pledge to make concessions to end the crisis.

The rebel...

RECUPERATING former South African leader, Nelson Mandela, has been counseled by his doctor to remain in Johannesburg for now to be close to medical facilities that can provide the necessary care to him.

Also, Presidential spokesman, Mac Maharaj...

EMBATTLED President Francois Bozize of Central African Republic (CAR) has appealed for assistance from France and United States (U.S.) to halt rebels’ advancement as regional troops moved in to secure the capital in an escalating crisis in one...

TAALAT Ibrahim Abdallah, Egypt’s public prosecutor, has ordered a probe into the top three leaders of the opposition on suspicion of trying to incite followers to overthrow President Mohamed Morsi, a legal source said.

Abdallah, who was...