Two people including the driver and a passenger were killed, and 34 others were injured after an overnight train derailed when it careered off the tracks...
The Kenyan government says it plans to convert the Shakahola Forest, where bodies of over 250 members of a Christian cult led by Pastor Paul Mackenzie...
Following a spate of violent clashes which has led to the death of over 20 people, the Senegalese government has cut access to mobile internet services...
Senegal’s Interior Minister, Antoine Diome, on Friday, confirmed the death of nine people after violence broke out in various cities following a Dakar court’s sentencing of...
Thirteen members of a Namibian family have died while four are in critical condition after consuming a meal of porridge suspected to contain poisonous substance. Local...
At least 10 people have died and 37 others hospitalized following an outbreak of cholera in the Gauteng Province of South Africa. According to health authorities...
Kenyan forensic experts, in conjunction with homicide detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), on Friday, exhumed 29 more bodies suspected to be the remains...
Ghanaian authorities have confirmed the death of nine pupils who perished after a ferry that was transporting them to school in the Greater Accra region capsized...
At least 72 corpses were recovered from two flooded villages in the South Kivu province of Democratic Republic of Congo by humanitarian workers following a torrential...
The Rwandan government has confirmed the death of 136 people and the destruction of over 5,000 homes in devastating floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains,...