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Kenya's newly elected President William Ruto on Thursday vowed to overhaul the country's income tax regime and introduce reforms asking...

An "extraordinary and resilient" African elephant who defied all odds to give birth despite being shot five times by poachers...

Gunmen killed five soldiers and a civilian in southeast Nigeria, police and local media said Thursday, after the latest bloodshed...

Wearing a large hat protecting her face from the sun's rays in Cameroon, 63-year-old Jeanne now bitterly regrets using skin...

Once a symbol of the jihadist war in northeast Nigeria, the town of Bama today betrays the grinding nature of...

By forcing the world to wake up to the daily sexual abuse suffered by women, the #MeToo movement became a...

Dozens of feminist activists demonstrated Wednesday in Morocco's capital, calling for legalized abortions after a teenage girl died following a...

Campaigning for Nigeria's 2023 presidential election got off to a low-key start on Wednesday, with candidates holding a book launch...

The United States on Wednesday signed a $350 million grant for infrastructure projects with Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera, hailing his...

The trial of former Guinean dictator Moussa Dadis Camara and other former officials over the September 28, 2009, stadium massacre...

Guinea's oldest chimpanzee and one of the last members of a globally famous endangered community has died in solitude around...

Near the lush fields of his village in Sudan's southern Blue Nile state, Youssef Ismail has crafted a traditional horn-like...

Earth's climate is changing so quickly that humanity is running out of chances to fix it, primatologist Jane Goodall has...

Morocco said Algeria on Tuesday invited its King Mohammed VI to attend an Arab League summit in Algiers in November,...

Amnesty International on Tuesday urged Guinea's junta to pass a comprehensive law on violence against women and revise the definition...

Nigeria rice farmer Adamu Garba squelched barefoot through his paddy fields, surveying damage from devastating floods that have destroyed farmland...

South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma, who is facing corruption charges and served a short stint in jail, has said he...

He has been described as the financier of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda a businessman who allegedly turned his vast...

Felicien Kabuga, who goes on trial in the Hague on Thursday, rose from poverty to become one of Rwanda's richest...

At least five people, including two children, were killed Monday after a six-Storey building collapsed in a town on the...

Countless Guineans have waited 13 years for the trial of former junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara and others held responsible...

With Nigeria's economy struggling and insecurity rife, four top presidential candidates start campaigning this week for next February's election in...

Twenty years after Le Joola ferry sank, the Senegalese town where half of the 1,900 dead lived will on Monday...

Queen Elizabeth II's death earlier this month prompted a flood of tributes but not from everyone. In Britain's black community,...

Two years after Samuel Ashola was shot in the leg during a peaceful protest in Nigeria's economic capital Lagos, the...

One person was killed, and two others wounded in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday during a demonstration against...

For years, students in a South African township have seen their parents struggle to use trains for daily commutes, the...

Guinea's ruling military junta on Thursday accused the president of the West African regional bloc ECOWAS of "lies" over his...

French President Emmanuel Macron met Wednesday with the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, seeing progress in...

A Senegalese appeal court on Wednesday confirmed a prison sentence handed down to the mayor of Dakar, convicted of killing...