At least five suicide bombers died in northern Mali on Friday in attacks aimed at Malian and Nigerien troops which failed to inflict serious casualties on their targets, a spokesman for Mali’s army said. One of the towns hit was Gossi, the furthest

Archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu will not vote for the African National Congress, he wrote in an opinion piece carried by a South African newspaper on Friday. “I have voted for the ANC, but I would very sadly not be

Talks between the government of Mozambique and the main opposition Renamo party resumed in the national capital Maputo on Thursday.

A total of 24 people died and four others are missing in Saudi Arabia over the past week due to heavy rains and floods, Saudi Press Agency reported on Friday.

LA PAZ. — Bolivian President Evo Morales declared on Wednesday he was expelling the US Agency for International Development (USAid) from the country, accusing the aid agency of conspiring against his

Mozambique’s Renamo opposition movement rejected an offer of talks with the government on Friday, keeping political tensions high after shootings this month by suspected Renamo gunmen, the deadliest attacks in more than a decade. Renamo, originally an

Seventy-one people were killed in the 7.0-magnitude earthquake in southwest China’s Sichuan Province yesterday, according to the China Earthquake Administration.
The earthquake hit Lushan county of Ya’an City in the province at 8.02am Beijing Time, according

Cuban leader Fidel Castro warned ally North Korea against war on Friday and described the current tensions on the Korean Peninsula as one of the “gravest risks” for nuclear holocaust since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

Visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged Friday that China will enhance co-operation with the Republic of Congo and remain an “all-weather” friend and partner of Africa.
At a meeting with his Congolese counterpart Denis Sassou Nguesso, Xi hailed the deep traditional friendship between the two nations, saying both countries have offered firm

The death toll from the collapse of a building in Tanzania’s commercial capital Dar es Salaam has risen to 17, a senior government official has said.
The building of more than 12 storeys, which had been under construction, collapsed on Friday morning near a mosque in the Kariakoo district around the city centre.

Nelson Mandela yesterday spent his third day in hospital after making “steady progress” for a recurring lung infection, the latest health scare for the nonagenarian anti-apartheid icon.