A young Egyptian man scored an own goal by pretending to take a university exam for professional footballer Mostafa Mohamed, ...

As Burkina Faso's junta consolidates its position after seizing power in a coup, we look at the recent history of ...

A 10-year-old rhino that had its horn brutally hacked off returned to the wild Monday, after 30 operations over six ...

Kenya and Mauritania have received nearly two million new doses of Covid-19 vaccines from the United States in the latest ...

Sudanese gathered to demand justice Monday for the scores killed in a months-long crackdown since a military coup -- then ...

Libya's interim Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah on Sunday called for a constitution to be established before holding delayed presidential and ...

Former captain Quinton de Kock hit a sparkling century to set up a four-run win for South Africa in the ...

Cameroon's government said Sunday that 16 people were killed in a fire caused by fireworks in a nightclub in the ...

Soldiers in Burkina Faso staged mutinies at several barracks to demand the sacking of the country's military top brass and ...

The US army has confirmed the presence of Russian mercenaries from the Wagner group in Mali, which the African nation's ...

In the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in a province under military control, a rebel militia administers a ...

Sudan's second most powerful leader met with Ethiopia's defense minister Saturday on a rare visit to Addis Ababa by an ...

Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the powerful son of Uganda's president, met with Rwandan President Paul Kagame in Kigali on Saturday in a ...

Having benefited from playing under Steven Gerrard at Rangers, Joe Aribo is starring for Nigeria at the Africa Cup of ...

An elephant in Kenya has given birth to twins, an extremely rare event, conservationists said Thursday. Conservation group Save the ...

Tunisian President Kais Saied assured Thursday that the country's freedoms are "guaranteed"  after rights groups warned of a threat signaled ...

Authorities in the Burkina Faso capital on Thursday banned two planned weekend protests at lack of security in the troubled ...

Sudanese security forces fired tear gas on Thursday at protesters rallying against the killing of dozens in a post-coup crackdown, ...

Senegal will vote for mayors and local representatives on Sunday in the first election since last year's riots, in a ...

The engineers aboard the floating power station on Lake Kivu could only watch nervously as the volcano in the distance ...

Senior US diplomats met with pro-democracy activists Wednesday in Sudan as part of talks to discuss the way forward after ...

Temba Bavuma and Rassie van der Dussen hit centuries and enabled South Africa to recover from a slow start in ...

Ivory Coast coach Patrice Beaumelle on Wednesday railed against the state of the pitch in Douala where his team must ...

US biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong on Wednesday opened a plant in Cape Town that will be the first in Africa ...

Four-time champions Ghana were eliminated from the Africa Cup of Nations after crashing 3-2 to minnows Comoros in Group C ...

Libya's parliamentary speaker Aguila Saleh said Tuesday that by the end of the month the committee responsible for overseeing elections ...

A Rwandan court on Tuesday ruled that a prosecution appeal to increase a prison sentence against "Hotel Rwanda" hero Paul ...

Freedoms are imperiled in Tunisia after the violent suppression of protests against President Kais Saied last week, rights groups warned ...

At 92, Giddes Chalamanda has no idea what TikTok is. He doesn't even own a smartphone. And yet the Malawian ...

Sudanese shuttered shops and barricaded streets with burning tyres and rocks Tuesday, staging angry rallies to protest against one of ...