Africa News

A prominent Kenyan LGBTQ campaigner whose body was found dumped in a metal box about two weeks ago was buried...

Al-Shabaab stormed a military base north of the Somali capital on Tuesday in a deadly attack launched after the government...

Braving stressful waits, red tape and repeated visits, Nigerians are rushing to pick up their voting cards for next month's...

An Egyptian military court on Sunday sentenced in absentia a Spain-based critic of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to life in...

Opposition Chief  Raila Odinga jetted out of the country on Friday for a one-week visit to South Africa, his spokesman...

The decades-long rivalry between North African Neighbours Morocco and Algeria has spilled onto the football pitch, leaving the Moroccan team...

The US ambassador to Sudan has called on ex-rebels who were not part of an initial post-coup deal to join...

Fifteen feature-length movies are vying for the top prize in next month's FESPACO festival, Africa's top cinema event, the organizers...

The French and German foreign ministers called Friday on Africa to condemn Russian aggression in Ukraine, while pressing for deeper...

Morocco demanded Friday that a Madrid court rule it had nothing to do with the possible installation of Pegasus spyware...

Anti-apartheid activist Frene Ginwala, the speaker of South Africa's first democratic elected parliament and the first woman to hold the...

The Polisario movement, which seeks independence in disputed Western Sahara, started meeting Friday for leadership elections in the shadow of...

Ethiopia needs to do more to restore full humanitarian access in the Tigray region, where millions still need assistance despite...

The United Nations called Thursday for urgent funding to help thirty million children suffering from acute malnutrition "before it is...

The United States announced Thursday it was offering a reward of up to $10 million for a man described as...

President Emmanuel Macron has said he will not "ask forgiveness" from Algeria for French colonization but hopes to continue working...

A video showing soldiers hurling a corpse onto a pile of burning rubble in Mozambique's jihadist-hit north "gives a glimpse"...

Kenyan prosecutors on Thursday said rally driver Maxine Wahome was facing a murder charge following the death of her boyfriend...

Benin's main opposition on Thursday rejected the results of this week's parliamentary election, claiming vote buying and fraud allowed allies...

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang said Wednesday that Africa should have a greater voice in the UN Security Council and...

The Egyptian pound traded Wednesday at half its value from March after the central bank intervened for a third time...

Three aid workers have been murdered this month in conflict-battered South Sudan and a disputed border area, the UN's emergency...

Charles Ble Goude, once right-hand man to ex-president Laurent Gbagbo, said Wednesday he wants "to govern Ivory Coast one day,"...

Uganda's Constitutional Court on Tuesday quashed a key part of a controversial internet law which rights groups charged was aimed...

A regional force fighting jihadists in Mozambique said on Tuesday it had opened an investigation over a video showing some...

Benin's electoral officials were tallying ballots Tuesday from a parliamentary vote seen as a key test of democracy in the...

Suspected warlord Gibril Massaquoi appeared Tuesday in a Finnish appeals court accused of atrocities in Liberia's civil war following his acquittal...

Gabon's President Ali Bongo Ondimba on Monday appointed Alain-Claude Bilie-By-Nze as the new prime minister, tasking him to form a...

Forty people were killed and eighty-five were injured when two buses crashed in a head-on collision overnight on an arterial...

Adriaan Vlok, a feared minister under South Africa's apartheid system and one of its few high-ranking officials to be prosecuted,...