Hundreds of travellers were stranded at Nairobi airport Wednesday, and some were treated for tear gas exposure, as striking workers and police faced off at East Africa 39;s busiest air traffic hub. After flights began to be grounded from midnight, passengers were advised not to come to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) -- East ...

In a cramped apartment on the outskirts of Moscow, Lamin has little more than the clothes and the Bible he brought with him when he came to Russia on a temporary World Cup visa last summer. The 23-year-old Gambian shares the two-bedroom flat with nine other people -- the youngest a newborn baby girl, the daughter of a Congolese flatmate. ...

Hundreds of travellers were stranded at Nairobi 39;s international airport Wednesday as riot police were deployed and teargas fired to disperse striking workers. With flights grounded since midnight, passengers were advised Wednesday morning not to come to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport -- East Africa 39;s busiest according to th ...

The first Moroccan to scale the seven summits of the world 39;s continents, Bouchra Baibanou wants to inspire a new generation of women who dare to believe in themselves . With will power and perseverance, you can get there, said Baibanou, 49, weeks after reaching the summit of Antarctica 39;s Mount Vinson. Conquering the 4,897 met ...

The impoverished Sahel state of Niger on Tuesday launched a campaign to vaccinate six million children against meningitis, which killed nearly 200 people two years ago. Children aged between one and seven years will be immunised over the week-long nationwide programme, Health Minister Idi Illiassou said. He called on parents to massive ...

A UN envoy is moving ahead with plans to hold a second round of talks this month on settling the decades-old conflict in Western Sahara, the UN spokesman said Tuesday. Horst Koehler, a former German president who has been leading the UN peace effort between Morocco and the Polisario Front, held a first round in December in Geneva that did n ...