Listeria outbreak: South African neighbours ban meat exports
Several southern African states have banned processed meat from South Africa after it said it had identified the source of a food poisoning outbreak.
The government blamed the sausage known as polony for the listeria...
IS video ‘shows deaths of US soldiers in Niger ambush’
The Islamic State (IS) group has published a video purporting to show an ambush in Niger in which four US soldiers were killed last October.
It is not clear why the release of the video...
Mahama, other observers set for Sierra Leone polls
The chair of the Commonwealth Observer Group in Sierra Leone, Mr John Dramani Mahama, and other colleague former Heads of State heading various Observer Missions have been meeting in Freetown to review preparations towards...
Man shoots himself outside White House
A man has shot and killed himself outside the White House in Washington, the Secret Service says.
It said the man approached the White House's fence on Pennsylvania Avenue just before noon local time (17:00GMT)...
Modric charged with false testimony
Real Madrid’s Luka Modric was charged Friday with giving false testimony at the corruption trial of Dinamo Zagreb’s powerful former chief Zdravko Mamic, prosecutors said.
The 32-year-old midfielder was charged with “committing the criminal offence...
‘UN workers killed in Nigeria’
Three aid workers have been killed in Nigeria's north eastern town of Rann during an attack by militants at a military facility, news agency Reuters reports quoting a UN spokeswoman.
A fourth aid worker may...
Burkina Faso attack: Ouagadougou sees gunfire and explosion
Gunfire and an explosion have been heard near the army headquarters and the French embassy in the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou.
Witnesses have reported seeing armed men getting out of a car and opening...
Kenya doctors ‘perform brain surgery on wrong patient
Four Kenyan medics have been suspended after cutting open the skull of the wrong patient at a hospital in Nairobi.
One patient needed surgery on a blood clot on the brain, the other only non-invasive...
Zambian MP sentenced to death
A Zambian lawmaker has been sentenced to death by hanging after a court found him guilty of shooting dead a security guard.
Keith Mukata, a member of the opposition United Party for National Development, was...
Trump at odds with Republican lawmakers over gun reforms
US President Donald Trump has stunned lawmakers from both parties by telling them in a live broadcast not to be so "petrified" of the powerful gun lobby the National Rifle Association (NRA).
In a break...