Africa

South Africa's president, whose coal-dependent country is among the world's top polluters, Tuesday criticized international funders for making it difficult...

Kidnapped, held captive and raped by four guards, Messaouda is now free, but too afraid to return to her village,...

The United Arab Emirates and Egypt agreed Tuesday to develop one of the world's largest wind farms in a deal...

UN chief Antonio Guterres warned world leaders at a climate summit in Egypt on Monday that humanity faces a stark...

Amnesty International's secretary general on Friday called for new "enlightened" political leadership in Africa, lamenting shrinking civil liberties in Mali,...

Moroccan police on Friday arrested thirty-two migrants as they tried to set sail for Spain, authorities said, including six Moroccans...

Nigeria on Friday said it had beefed up security and called for the public to be vigilant but calm after...

Diamond tycoon and political maverick Sam Matekane on Friday took the oath as Lesotho's new prime minister at a packed...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has dug a rift between African countries and supporters in the West who are urging the...

Several Senegalese associations on Thursday urged President Macky Sall to dispel doubts and publicly declare that he would not run...

Pollution in Africa's fast-expanding cities is deadlier than thought, yet green solutions could save tens of thousands of lives and...

Sudanese security forces fired tear gas Thursday as thousands of protesters marched against last year's coup, which sparked political and economic...

Country climate pledges leave the world on track to heat by as much as 2.6 degrees Celsius this century, the...

Namibia said Thursday it had asked Germany to renegotiate the genocide agreement reached last year between the two governments but...

Kenyan President William Ruto's cabinet was sworn in on Thursday, two months after he narrowly won a bitterly fought but...

Rilee Rossouw blasted 109 and shared in a record-breaking stand with Quinton de Kock as South Africa crushed Bangladesh to kickstart...

South Africa's treasury vowed Wednesday to take over more than half of Eskom's multi-billion-dollar debt to ensure the embattled energy...

Mali's security situation has become "significantly worse" due to the ruling junta's choices, including an alleged decision to partner with...

The first formal peace talks between the warring sides in the brutal two-year conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region went into...

With less than two months to go until the African National Congress gathers to elect a leader, President Cyril Ramaphosa...

A wildfire that officials thought was under control on Africa's highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro, has reignited, Tanzanian officials said on...

South Sudan's vice president, Riek Machar, has rejected a move to kick him out of the ruling party, a sign...

The president of the troubled Central African Republic, Faustin Archange Touadera, on Tuesday fired the country's top judge, a move...

The United States on Tuesday authorized the departure of diplomats from the Nigerian capital Abuja, stepping up precautions over what...

The European Union announced Tuesday it was lifting sanctions against three Burundians, including the new prime minister, which had been...

Eleven leaders from Central Africa gathered in Kinshasa on Tuesday to discuss the troubles in Chad, where dozens were killed...

Pakistan will hold a formal inquiry into the killing in Kenya of a top TV news anchor who fled the...

Eleven people, mostly children, have perished in a blaze that tore through a dormitory at a school for the blind...

Mechanical diggers are hard at work in the bleak landscape of the Moanda open-cast mine in Gabon, using giant jaws...

Winemaking was a profession most South African parents could never have envisioned for their children.  But Black South Africans are today...