Security and economic issues will be at the heart of the official visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who ...

An air strike by the Nigerian army targeting 'bandits' has left seven children dead and five others wounded "by mistake" ...

Nigeria's government has handed over two bronze treasures to a traditional royal palace in part of a series of restorations ...

Ethiopia began generating electricity from its mega-dam on the Blue Nile on Sunday, a milestone in the controversial multi-billion dollar ...

Raja Casablanca, captained by 35-year-old Mohsine Moutaouali, were the only club among eight seeded to reach the CAF Champions League ...

A suicide bomber killed 14 people in a popular restaurant in the central Somali town of Beledweyne on Saturday, on ...

Benin President Patrice Talon on Saturday will inaugurate an exhibition of historic treasures returned by France last year, nearly 130 ...

Ethiopia will start generating power from its mega-dam on the Blue Nile on Sunday, government officials told AFP, a major ...

They turned up in a mob of several hundred at a migrant center in South Africa's Soweto township -- unemployed, ...

Attacks on UN facilities, a surge in tribal clashes, lootings, rape, and anti-coup protests -- Sudan's Darfur region is reeling ...

In one of South Africa's roughest townships, an overcrowded and dilapidated housing complex has maintained one rule for decades: No ...

Thousands of Libyans on celebrated for a second day Friday 11 years since the revolt that toppled dictator Moamer Kadhafi, ...

France's planned military withdrawal from Mali has opened the door to talks between the Malian government and al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadists, which ...

EU and African leaders agreed to a "renewed partnership" at a summit Friday with pledges of major investments, but Europe was ...

Mali's army-led government on Friday asked France to withdraw its forces from the Sahel state "without delay", calling into question ...

The leader of Tanzania's main opposition party will stand trial for terrorism, a high court judge ruled Friday, in a ...

Fighting in northern Ethiopia's Afar region has "engulfed" a camp housing refugees from neighboring Eritrea, the UN said Friday, killing ...

Six African countries have been chosen to establish their own mRNA vaccine production, the World Health Organization said Friday, with ...

Henry Nicholls and Matt Henry spearheaded a commanding display as New Zealand built a 387-run first-innings lead that left South ...

Every day at the family grocery stall in a Tunis market, Bilel Jani sees the reality of a biting economic ...

The United States on Thursday shipped nearly 5.2 million doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine to Egypt and Nigeria, a ...

Algerian prosecutors on Thursday called for harsher penalties against journalist and press freedom activist Khaled Drareni, his lawyer said, after ...

Belgium on Thursday gave the DR Congo an inventory of tens of thousands of art objects from the former Belgian ...

The shell crashed through Aicha Nur's flimsy hut just as she was serving a lunch of bread and milk to ...

For years, a family clan that kept lions to sow terror in the Libyan town of Tarhuna tortured and killed ...

France announced Thursday that it was withdrawing its troops from Mali after a breakdown in relations with the country's ruling ...

Ex-president Armando Guebuza on Thursday took the witness stand in  Mozambique's biggest corruption scandal, defending his government's decision to contract ...

EU and African leaders on Thursday launched a two-day summit aimed at rebooting ties through pledges of major investment in ...

Libyans on Thursday marked 11 years since the revolt that toppled dictator Moamer Kadhafi, but the democracy many hoped for ...

President Emmanuel Macron welcomed African leaders for dinner in Paris Wednesday ahead of an expected announcement that France is withdrawing ...