Human Security

A suicide bomber killed five people, including a Chadian soldier, when she blew herself up on the shores of Lake Chad, military and government...

A fuel tanker exploded in eastern Tanzania killing at least 60 people, authorities said, as flames ripped through a crowd gathered to siphon fuel...

Scientists are a step closer to finding the first effective treatment for the deadly Ebola haemorrhagic fever after two potential drugs showed encouraging survival...

Britain and the United States urged Tanzania to guarantee due process of law for a journalist arrested on charges his lawyer and rights groups...

The suicide bomber who killed the mayor of Mogadishu and six other people was a blind, female municipal government employee assisted by a fellow...

Gunmen shot dead a family of seven and injured three others in the restive Ethiopian state Oromia, the prime minister’s home region, authorities said. It...

Eritrea is forcing thousands of students and teachers into indefinite national service, driving many into exile and frustrating hopes a peace deal with Ethiopia...

Blessing was only six when her mother arranged for her to be an unpaid housemaid for a family in Abuja, on the promise they...

Three Congolese doctors were arrested for allegedly planning an attack on a hospital that killed a senior World Health Organisation (WHO) epidemiologist involved in...

Uganda started its largest-ever trial of a preventive Ebola vaccine, an official said, amid fears of a potential spill-over of the deadly haemorrhagic fever...