•Ambassador Chijioke (left): A Mike Tyson? The battered wife (right). The embattled Nigerian Ambassador to Kenya and the Seychelles, Dr....

President Obama said Friday that he had ordered the deployment of 100 armed military advisers to central Africa to help regional forces...

The finance ministry had awarded a contract to a firm called Siqamba Medical, which planned to buy the Phoenurse condoms from China, the...

Leila Lopes of Angola beats 88 other contestants to win the Miss Universe contest in San Paulo, Brazil Leila Lopes from Angola has been...

By Davis Buyondo. Suspects at Masaka Police Station are living in absolute fear after a woman who was detained for alleged cannibalism...

Filmmakers: Orlando von Einsiedel and Caroline Pare Every year tens of thousands of West Africans migrate to Europe in search of a better...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A dug-up site in a sealed-off region of Sudan appears to be a mass grave, a U.S. satellite monitoring group said...

Last week we had that seemingly bizarre story from Zimbabwe. Police Sergeant Alois Mabhuno was jailed for 10 days for using a toilet...

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe A Zimbabwean police officer accused of using a toilet reserved for President Robert Mugabe has been...

A walmart Store in the US Pretoria — Walmart Stores will now trade in South Africa, with the Competition Tribunal having approved its...

Tough on the eye: Deserving winner ... Mr Ugly 2011 Austin Mbewe A Zimbabwe man took the coveted title of Mr. Ugly at a weekend pageant...

Africa means business. The past decade has seen an enormous number of mega-corporations emerge on the continent. However, a vast number...

Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi are targeting 2012 for adopting a common currency (CNN) — Just as the eurozone is being...

The Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye arriving in Kenya for medical treatment last month. Photograph: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images...

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Hundreds of albinos are thought to have been killed for black magic purposes in Tanzania and albino girls are...

A picture drawn by an 11-year-old carer in Kenya, from an exhibition at the London School of Economics. Photograph: Zivai Mupambireyi...

Tunahaki is the extraordinary story of nine gifted orphans and their journey from Africa to America and back. The story begins at an...

In an unexpected setback for a new form of AIDS prevention, scientists on Monday halted a study in Africa intended to find out whether a...

File | NATION Herbalist Ambilikile Mwasapile dispenses his ‘wonder drug’ at his home in Loliondo, Arusha, Tanzania The mugariga...

KAMPALA, Uganda — Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is welcome to live in the East African nation of Uganda, the president’s spokesman told...