A critical presidential runoff election in Guinea will be postponed by at least two weeks, the country’s electoral commission said Thursday. “There will be no election this Sunday,” said Thierno Ceydou Bayo, the head of communication...

Afghanistan’s central bank has stepped in to take control of the troubled Kabul Bank. Central bank chief Abdul Qadir Fitrat said investigations had also been started into the dealings of the bank’s top two directors and...

Suicide bombers have attacked Somalia’s main airport in Mogadishu, killing soldiers and civilians, officials say. The attackers used two cars - the first exploded at the airport entrance, but a number of insurgents jumped out of the second car...

A UPS cargo plane with two crew members on board crashed shortly after takeoff Friday outside Dubai, officials said. The state news agency WAM, quoting the General Civil Aviation Authority, reported that the “bodies of two pilots” had been...

“This is the last frontier of tourism in southern Africa,” said our guide as I gasped and wheezed my way up Thaba Bosiu, meaning “mountain of the night” in the Sesotho language – so named because when darkness fell it appeared...

Fred M’membe, the editor of The Post, a newspaper highly critical of the government, was sentenced on Friday to four months of hard labor for contempt of court.

Guatemala City residents have been warned to prepare for further sinkholes after a natural disaster swallowed an entire crossroads and a three-storey textile factory last weekend, leaving a massive vertical hole in the ground. The building was empty...

Juliana Kweais has a small scar on her bottom lip, from the first time she witnessed an abortion. The sharp blow to her mouth was delivered by her grandmother, after the then-13-year-old Kweais had asked why her auntie had given “birth” to a...

The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing has backed calls for a public inquiry into the atrocity. Speaking to Scotland’s The Herald newspaper from his home in the Libyan capital, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi said he was determined to clear his...