Africa News

Forty-six Ivorian troops whose detention by Mali triggered a bitter diplomatic row went on trial at a court of appeal...

Ethiopia's federal police began to deploy on Thursday in the capital of war-torn Tigray for the first time in 18...

Armed raids in a region of South Sudan plagued by ethnic clashes have forced around 30,000 civilians to flee their...

Nine people have been killed in fighting in Sudan's western Darfur region between groups of Arab Rizeigat and the Fur...

The Gambia on Tuesday set up an "investigative panel" and gave it 30 days to report back on last week's...

Three prominent Congolese figures, including Nobel winner Denis Mukwege, on Monday accused President Felix Tshisekedi of pushing the country towards...

A high-level Ethiopian government delegation on Monday made the first visit to the capital of rebel-held Tigray since the signing...

President William Ruto  wants the international community to quickly intervene in the ongoing new conflict in South Sudan. Ruto, in...

Zambian rights activists Saturday hailed as a "huge milestone" a decision to scrap two British colonial-era laws: the death penalty...

An Ivory Coast delegation arrived in Mali on Thursday for talks on a five-month-old row sparked by the detention of...

The Gambia's government on Wednesday said it had thwarted a coup attempt the previous day and arrested four soldiers. "The...

Nigerian authorities have acknowledged "collateral damage" from air strikes against criminal gangs in which residents said around one hundred civilians...

One of France's best-loved stars, Omar Sy, has returned to his Senegalese roots for a movie about colonial troops who...

Kenyan shop attendant Winnie Wanjiru Mwaura was brimming with hope when she signed up to be an election agent for...

A hush grips the auditorium as the long-awaited concert by one of the world's most renowned chorales gets underway. Wearing...

This year will be the fourth year running that Seyi Anne Moses has had to decide against going home to...

In a faded hall with tattered carpets, young acrobats launch off their partners' feet high into the air with a...

Tunisian police have arrested former prime minister Ali Larayedh, his Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party said Tuesday, accusing authorities of trying to...

Ghana's main unions on Monday called for a nationwide strike from next week in protest the inclusion of workers' pensions...

A Libyan court on Monday sentenced seventeen people to death after finding them guilty of joining the Islamic State group...

Tunisia's electoral board revised the turnout in parliamentary elections slightly upwards to 11.2 percent on Monday, a poll that opposition...

A Tunisian man appeared in court Monday in the latest hearing in a long-running case that could see him returned...

Tunisia's massive election boycott has further challenged the legitimacy of President Kais Saied, but a divided and discredited opposition poses...

Ghana suspended payments on part of its foreign debt on Monday as the country undertakes debt restructuring in line with...

Judges in London on Monday ruled that the UK government's controversial plan to deport migrants to Rwanda was lawful, after...

Egyptian businessman Mohamed El-Amin has died while serving a three-year sentence for trafficking and sexually assaulting girls at an orphanage...

As the world's environment ministers try to thrash out a new deal for nature, youth activists gathered at a UN...

Uganda on Saturday lifted a two-month lockdown on two districts at the epicenter of the country's Ebola epidemic, amid cautious...

Germany on Saturday inaugurated its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, built in record time, as the country scrambles to...

South Africa's ruling ANC was due to elect a new leader this weekend after the country's embattled president Cyril Ramaphosa...