Africa

An army plane has crashed in Sudan while taking off from an air base, killing at least 46 people.

Health experts say an unknown illness has killed more than 50 people, within 48 hours of symptoms appearing in three children.

Archaeologists have discovered the first ancient pharaoh's tomb to be found in Egypt in more than 100 years.

The expose on the scam schools comes as Nigeria gets set to prosecute two men whose sextortion scheme resulted in the death of a NSW teenager.

Olympic gold medallist boxer Imane Khelif is ready to take legal action against the International Boxing Federation which has used Donald Trump’s transgender athletes ban to reignite its feud with her.

Gunmen have attacked a convoy of vehicles escorted by the army, killing at least 25 civilians who were mostly gold miners in Mali.

Local authorities in northern Somalia say US air strikes ordered by Donald Trump have killed at least 46 militants including foreign fighters.

A year after the last Ebola deaths, another lethal outbreak has been confirmed with a nurse its first victim in Uganda.

Twenty people have died after a plane carrying oil workers crashed at an airport near the work site.

Fighting between soldiers and rebels is threatening a lab containing Ebola samples that could be released causing a 90 per cent death rate, the Red Cross says.

Some Goma residents applauded and cheered on the M23 rebels. Others, however, tried to flee into neighbouring Rwanda with just heir belongings on their back.

Panic spread in eastern Congo’s main city, with M23 rebels steadily inching closer to Goma and seizing a nearby town as they battle the Congolese army

It comes after the nation’s health minister denied there was an outbreak.

At least 86 people have died after an oil tanker overturned and burst into flames.

Rescuers have pulled 78 dead miners from an abandoned gold mine, where they have languished for months during a stand-off with authorities.