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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...

President William Ruto met the United States President Joe Biden on Thursday September 22 during the 77th session of the...

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

Internet access disruption in major parts of the western Kurdistan province, Tehran and Sanandaj in Iran has been witnessed following...

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...

The leader of Tunisia's Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party was questioned through the night by counter-terrorism police over alleged complicity in the...

His Toyota Matrix has driven the equivalent of four times around the world and it would never pass an inspection...

Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi on Tuesday accused Rwanda of direct aggression, renewing charges as he addressed the...

Global leaders called Tuesday for urgent efforts to address global food insecurity amid fears of disastrous harvests next year, as...

Five people have been killed by Iranian security forces during protests that were sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini....

Uganda's health ministry on Tuesday announced the country's first fatality from the highly contagious Ebola virus since 2019, declaring an...

Youngsters in Ivory Coast return to school this week with a sword of Damocles above their heads: those with average...

As flies buzz over his tiny body, two-year-old Sadak Ibrahim barely whimpers, too weak to cry or shoo them away...

Africa offers a vast underdeveloped market for global sports, with thousands of athletes ready to join international ranks if only...

UN investigators said Monday they believed Ethiopia's government was behind ongoing crimes against humanity in Tigray and warned the resumption...

Chad's foreign minister resigned on Monday, accusing the ruling junta of sidelining him at a key forum aimed at steering...

Queen Elizabeth II, the longest UK serving monarch who reigned for 70 years and died aged 96 years on September 8,...

Benin's historic female warriors known as the Amazons of Dahomey are legendary across West Africa, but a Hollywood production is...

Twice former champions Asante Kotoko of Ghana were shocked by Rail Kadiogo of Burkina Faso on Sunday in the CAF...

A bus carrying 47 passengers left 27 dead after it flipped on its side on a highway in Guizhou province...

As twilight nestles behind the mountains in Nongoma town, the birthplace of South Africa's ethnic Zulu group, thousands of young women...

Eight Namibian cheetahs arrived in India Saturday, decades after their local extinction, in an ambitious project to reintroduce the spotted...

Queen Elizabeth II smiling at children waving Kenyan flags and the Union Jack, alighting from the "Royal Train "or shaking...

A leading Chadian rebel flew home on Friday to join talks on the country's political future, after spending two years...

The West African state of Guinea on Friday announced that the long-awaited trial over a 2009 massacre will begin on...