Human Security

Congolese authorities confirmed a new case of Ebola in the remote, militia-controlled province Walikale, hundreds of kilometres away from previous cases near the border...

Ousted Sudan president Omar Hassan al-Bashir acknowledged receiving millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia, a police detective told a court at the start of...

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...