A suspected grenade explosion yesterday at a bus terminal in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, killed 3 people, including the man thought to have been carrying the device, the Standard newspaper reported today.

Relaxed and jovial, Mr Odinga used the period before the formal interview to talk candidly about the period leading up to the head operation that sidelined him from the campaign trail. He described how he had earlier ignored what he thought was a minor...

On a hot afternoon in Malam Ata market in the centre of Accra, capital of Ghana, when eight-year-olds should be in a classroom learning, or playing with friends, Berikisu is trading her education and health for cash. All day long she carries food to...

Attackers in Burundi chopped off the limbs of a 5-year-old albino boy and pulled out his mother’s eye, killing them over the belief that their body parts would bring wealth and success, human rights activists said Friday. Those deaths and other...

Joseph Ebuya and Emily Chebet headed a Kenyan sweep of the individual and team medals at the world cross country championships in Bydgoszcz on Sunday for the first time since 1994. Ebuya became the first Kenyan to win the senior men’s 12-kms...

The International Criminal Court may decide within five days whether to launch an investigation into the perpetrators of Kenya’s postelection violence, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Friday. ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno...

Kenya is set to deport a Jamaican-born Muslim cleric, who was expelled from Britain in 2007 after serving a jail term for inciting racial hatred. Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal was arrested after attending evening prayers at a mosque in Mombasa last...

At least 18 people, including 14 women, have been killed in the collapse of an illegal gold mine in Ghana. The disaster occurred on Wednesday in a privately-owned mine in the West African nation, the world’s second largest producer of...

There is a feisty old woman in every village. In Maparanhanga, a remote village in Mozambique, reached by a several-hour-trip through potholes held together by scraps of road, the feisty old woman didn’t stand out at first. She sat alongside her...

Muslims have been ordered to withdraw their children from Catholic-run schools in protest at the church’s Hijab ban. Sheikh Mohammed Dor said the church’s action was provocative and could spark Muslim anger in the country. “From...