INTERPOL and AFRIPOL conducted an international counter-terrorism operation in East Africa on Monday. The operation resulted in the arrest of 37 suspects and the seizure of small arms and heavy ...

PARIS, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Thirty-seven suspected terrorists, including suspected members of Islamic State, have been arrested across east Africa over the last two months, the global police body ...

Millions of years from now, northern Africa could be home to a new ocean, as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, according to scientists. Experts have long known that ...

Kenyan President William Ruto, who chairs the East African Community, said the bloc will convene an extraordinary summit within 48 hours to tackle the growing conflict in the Democratic Republic ...

Leaders from the Southern African Development Community met Friday in Zimbabwe to discuss the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo between the government and M23 rebels. The 16-nation bloc ...

At least 37 terrorists were apprehended in a joint Interpol and Afripol counter-terrorism operation across East Africa late last year, including suspected members of the ISIS (Daesh) and al ...

The largest city in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo ... risk another catastrophic African war. The origins of events in Goma go back decades. Between 1996 and 2003 Rwanda and other ...

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 17 (Reuters) - South Africa's foreign minister Ronald Lamola said on Monday that the United States had not responded to attempts to discuss President Donald Trump's executive ...

By the end of the year, the only remaining French base in Africa will be in Djibouti. Driven by pressure from the military dictatorships that have taken power across the Sahel and by anti-French ...

Consequently, implementing partners across Kenya and East Africa have been informed that their organizations will soon receive stop-work or suspension notices from the USAID/Kenya and East Africa ...

In 2005, Ethiopia experienced earthquakes that caused the appearance of a 35-mile-long fissure in the desert called the East African Rift. "It marked the start of a long process in which the ...

US president has threatened to cut funding to South Africa over alleged land grabs. But what’s the truth of the matter? Informal shacks in a majority-Black township are seen next to an upmarket ...