Times Live (South Africa)
Friday, October 30, 2015 - 06:32
Backed by tanks, armoured vehicles and plenty of EU cash, thousands of African soldiers took on an imaginary enemy in the arid heart of South Africa this week.
Thursday, October 15, 2015 - 07:06
A top al-Shabaab commander and two other senior members of the Islamist group have been captured by Somali and African Union troops in the Horn of Africa country, intelligence sources said on Monday.
Thursday, September 17, 2015 - 06:35
A new analysis by Afrobarometer, a non-partisan research network, released in observance of the International Day of Democracy, suggests the extent to which African countries put democratic ideals into practice varies widely.
Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - 07:44
Chad's President Idriss Deby has called for better coordination between coalition forces fighting Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria, warning that the group has been wounded but not defeated.
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 10:08
Some 234 girls are missing from the northeast Nigerian school attacked last week by Islamic extremists, significantly more than the number reported by education officials, parents told the state governor.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 08:13
Stifled by the heat inside a barn in the Central African Republic town of Boda, dozens of emaciated and often sick displaced people subsist in fear of the vigilantes who surround them.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 07:35
At least five civilians were killed by a roadside bomb in southern Somalia, while another explosion in capital Mogadishu killed a government official, officials and witnesses said Wednesday.
Monday, March 24, 2014 - 08:30
When conflict broke out in the Central African Republic last year, the residents of Garoua-Boulai in neighbouring Cameroon could hear the fighting.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - 08:23
Decisive Solutions. That, according to a harrowing recent report by Amnesty International, is what one of the leaders of the Central African Republic militia, the anti-balaka, calls himself: Rodrigue DS.
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 08:39
Nigeria has shut five government colleges in the country's restive northeast in the wake of a deadly series of attacks targeting schools.