Unidentified gunmen ambushed a convoy of an oil servicing company in Nigeria's southern Rivers state and kidnapped two South Korean workers and killed four soldiers.
Many Zimbabweans have reacted with astonishment after Mthuli Ncube was named "Best African Finance Minister of the Year" despite the country's economic turmoil.
The Democratic Republic of Congo's leader has taken his rhetorical attacks on his Rwandan counterpart to another level by comparing him to Adolf Hitler.
Turkey has issued an international arrest warrant for the son of Somalia's president, after he allegedly ran over a motorcycle courier, who later died.
The delivery of a million barrels of crude oil to huge new refinery in Nigeria marks a major milestone in the process towards the country being able to produce fuel itself.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday approved two gene therapies for sickle cell disease, making one of them the first treatment in the United States based on the Nobel Prize-winning CRISPR gene editing technology.
Canada will require foreigners applying to study in the country to have double the amount of funds currently required, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Thursday.
Nearly 282 million people in Africa - about 20% of the continent's population - are undernourished, says a new report by the African Union and three UN bodies.
