Africa News

A United Nations peacekeeper from South Africa was killed and another wounded in an attack on their helicopter in eastern...

East African leaders called Saturday for an immediate ceasefire in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, at an extraordinary summit...

East African leaders were in Burundi on Saturday for a regional summit to discuss the raging conflict in eastern DR...

Pope Francis on Saturday will meet victims of South Sudan's civil war, a day after delivering an impassioned plea for...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and other government officials on Friday held their first meeting with Tigrayan leaders since a...

With just three weeks to go before Nigeria's presidential election, major cash and fuel shortages are stirring up public anger...

Three Kenyan police officers were on Friday given sentences ranging from 24 years in jail to the death penalty for...

Video cartoons circulating on social media have shed light on a Russian propaganda campaign aimed at sapping France's influence among...

Italy's coastguard recovered the bodies of eight migrants in the Mediterranean, officials said Friday, as a debate rages over Rome's...

Already struggling without electricity for hours a day, many South Africans are now having to do also without water, as...

A human rights NGO in Burkina Faso has accused the army of killing at least twenty-five civilians in the troubled...

Pope Francis on Friday left the Democratic Republic of Congo for a three-day visit to South Sudan to promote peace...

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez visited Rabat on Thursday to reset his country's "strategic partnership" with Morocco despite criticism from...

Pope Francis heads to South Sudan on Friday on the first papal visit to the troubled country since it achieved...

Burkina Faso's prime minister, in a visit to neighboring Mali this week, has suggested the two countries form a "federation"...

Musa Hasahya Kasera has so many children he can't remember most of their names. The Ugandan villager is struggling to...

The United States called Wednesday on Tunisia to show greater democratic inclusion after just 11.4 percent of voters took part...

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez kicked off a visit to Morocco on Wednesday, on a trip aimed at mending ties...

The leaders of Somalia and neighboring countries vowed at a summit on Wednesday to "make the final push" against Al-Shabaab...

The head of French energy giant Total Energies is expected this week to visit Mozambique, where a multi-billion-dollar gas project...

One hope united many of the people streaming to see Pope Francis perform mass in DR Congo's capital on Wednesday...

Muhammed Bazza has been queueing for petrol under the blazing sun for four hours, while Alexander Okwori has spent the last...

In the shaded garden of a church in South Sudan, a choir raises its voice in a hymn for peace...

Orphaned and homeless, Eddy Kenzo used to struggle to persuade DJs to play his songs, but Uganda's first Grammy contender said...

Up to a million people are tipped to celebrate a papal mass in DR Congo's capital on Wednesday, on the...

An angry mob clashed with police Monday in the northern Nigerian city of Kano to protest a visit by President...

A powerful Al-Qaeda-affiliated leader in the Sahel has been in secret talks with armed groups in northern Mali which, like...

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said Tuesday during a visit to Zimbabwe that sanctions imposed by Western nations had brought the...

Nigeria's former deputy senate president and his wife appeared in a London court on Tuesday ahead of their trial for...

Twenty-eight people have died in new attacks by suspected jihadists in Burkina Faso, including fifteen who had been abducted at...