Africa

JOHANNESBURG: Africa's biggest mobile operator MTN Group is not in active talks about reviving a potential acquisition of smaller South...

NEW DELHI: When Mauritius Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam arrives in Varanasi on September 10, the images will be familiar: sacred...

MARRA, Sudan: An armed group that controls part of western Sudan appealed on Tuesday for foreign help in recovering bodies...

NAIROBI: Kenya’s inflation rose to 4.5% year-on-year in August from 4.1% the previous month, largely driven by higher prices of...

ABUJA: A cholera outbreak in Bukkuyum district of Zamfara state, northwest Nigeria, has claimed at least eight lives and infected...

ABUJA: Nigeria LNG Ltd (NLNG) has signed landmark 20-year gas supply agreements with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPC)...

NAIROBI:  South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has fired the country's finance minister, state-owned radio announced, the seventh replacement to the...

TUNIS: Thousands of members and supporters of Tunisia's powerful Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) protested in the capital on Thursday...

MOGADISHU:  Diphtheria cases and deaths have risen sharply this year in Somalia, where the response has been curtailed by vaccine...

LONDON/DAKAR: The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century...