Burkina Faso's junta leader has announced the setting up of local committees to seek dialogue with armed jihadist groups and ...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said it had resumed aid by road to the war-ravaged Ethiopian region ...

Morocco's village of Inzerki is proud to claim it has the world's oldest and largest collective beehive, but instead of ...

Ethiopia on Thursday failed to block the United Nations from funding an international committee that will investigate human rights violations ...

The UN Security Council on Thursday voted unanimously for a new African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia, where Al-Shabaab insurgents ...

The recent party nomination of deputy president William Samoei Ruto as a presidential candidate sets the stage for a tight ...

Chad is in need of debt restructuring to help the country's economy, which saw weak growth last year, the IMF ...

The French medical charity Doctors without Borders (MSF) said Thursday that five employees who were kidnapped more than a month ...

A Sudanese protester was killed Thursday as thousands rallied against last year's military coup and worsening living conditions, medics and ...

A senior World Bank official called for more support for poor people globally Thursday as the war in Ukraine sends ...

The speaker of Tunisia's parliament on Thursday rejected President Kais Saied's dissolution of the assembly the previous day. "We consider ...

South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma on Thursday lost another bid to delay his corruption trial, as a court rejected ...

Inspector General Hillary Mutyambai has appealed against a Sh500,000 penalty fine imposed on him by the Senate Devolution Committee for ...

A Liberian accused of having been a rebel leader during the deadly civil war that tore his country apart has ...

Zimbabwe's general election is still a year away, but pro-democracy activists say they are worried last weekend's by-elections offered a ...

The United States on Tuesday expressed "concern" over "growing tensions" in South Sudan, and called on all parties to respect ...

Many residents of the Senegalese metropolis Dakar get up in the middle of the night hoping to collect water from ...

President Kais Saied has condemned "illegal" meetings of Tunisia's parliament which he suspended last July, saying those responsible for the ...

Before you use your smartphone to Google for the answer, be reminded that in 2021, some 1.5 billion smartphones were ...

Ethiopia has declared a conditional truce, and their rebel opponents in Tigray have agreed to cease hostilities if certain terms ...

A South African court on Friday delayed the trial of the man accused of burning down parliament in January, saying ...

The death toll from twin attacks in central Somalia has climbed to 48, the leader of Hirshabelle state said Thursday, ...

We are living under the shadow of nuclear war and environmental disasters. The War in Ukraine is a clear reminder ...

A cruise ship docked in a Tunisian port on Wednesday for the first time since 2019, carrying over 700 passengers ...

A Ugandan court has issued an arrest warrant for an award-winning author who fled the country after being charged with insulting ...

The war in Yemen will enter its eighth year this week with civilian casualties on the rise and unstoppable inflation, ...

As Kenya heads towards elections, concerns about the outbreak of electoral violence tend to rise. Existing research has offered several ...

A group of Malian political parties has called for an investigation into the "very troubling" death of ex-prime minister Soumeylou ...

Uganda's government must stop using illegal detention centers as a weapon against dissidents and close the facilities, Human Rights Watch ...

With the world focused on Ukraine, UN mediators are trying to avoid a political crisis degenerating into new violence in ...