Africa

UGANDAN opposition leader, Kizza Besigye, has been bundled into a van outside his home by police as his supporters planned a march to protest against the results of a presidential election.

ETHIOPIAN security forces are carrying out a brutal crackdown on peaceful protests in the country’s Oromia region.

A woman charged with stealing a newborn baby 18 years ago appeared briefly in a South African court yesterday

Four people have been arrested after they were caught with 1,200 donkey hides in Botswana, unravelling an export syndicate linked to China

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni won a fifth term on Saturday, extending his three-decade rule in a vote rejected as fraudulent by an opposition leader under house arrest

Two Serbian nationals held hostage in Libya since November were among those killed in Friday’s air strikes by US warplanes, the Serbian government says.

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni was poised to win a fifth term Saturday, with the results of most votes cast in the country's election showing him far ahead of his closest rival.

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi opened on Saturday an economic summit attended by African leaders and businessmen that aims to boost trade and investment across the continent.

Four lions who went on the prowl in Kenya's capital Nairobi after escaping from a national park have returned to the reserve, rangers said Saturday, after a day-long hunt for the big cats.

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni's chief rival remained under police guard at home on Saturday as vote counting continued after a chaotic election, in which the incumbent is eyeing a fifth term.

Wildlife rangers on Friday hunted for two lions who escaped from Nairobi's national park and meandered into "highly populated" areas of the Kenyan capital. Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) issued an appeal, "for help to get two lionesses that strayed from the Nairobi National Park." Armed rangers, as well as KWS vets with dart guns, scoured…

KENYA, which has suffered attacks by Somalia’s al Shabaab militants, will build a special prison to house “violent and extremist” offenders to keep them from influencing other prisoners, President Uhuru Kenyatta said. Kenyatta did not say which groups he was referring to, but Kenya has been hit by gun and grenade attacks by al Shabaab,…