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Ugandan media groups and rights activists on Monday filed a court challenge to a controversial new internet law that they...

Three United Nations troops were killed, and three others wounded by a roadside bomb in northern Mali on Monday, the...

Observers of troubled West Africa have long fretted that jihadists who have rampaged across the Sahel are eyeing a southward...

Ethiopia's government on Monday vowed to seize control of airports and other federal facilities in war-torn Tigray, a day after...

The new offshore gas terminal appears through the morning mist cloaking the Atlantic Ocean near Saint Louis, where Senegal meets...

Miner Thokozani Mtshweni, 37, looks spent as he readies for a 12-hour shift huddled under a carport shelter to avoid...

More than six hundred people are now known to have perished in the worst floods in a decade in Nigeria,...

Thousands of Tunisians demonstrated Saturday in the capital Tunis, denouncing a power grab by President Kais Saied and demanding accountability...

Guided by the broad beam of a torch light, four beekeepers softly tread towards a wooden hive atop a mango...

A Kenyan lawyer said Friday he has filed a court challenge to a decision by the new government to lift a...

Nigerian university lecturers on Friday suspended an eight-month strike over pay, welfare and crumbling facilities, the latest industrial dispute to...

Next to a wall surrounding an empty lot in central Johannesburg, a cherry picker carries a man above the street....

Political parties, social and religious groups and representatives of the security forces launched talks on Friday to chart the next...

It's the start of a new school term in Sudan, yet nine-year-old Zahra Hussein stays home helping with household chores,...

Wild populations of monitored animal species have plummeted 70 percent in the last 50 years, according to a landmark assessment...

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Wednesday ordered traditional healers to stop treating sick people in a bid to halt the...

Chadian leader Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno's plans to stay in power beyond his initially promised deadline have stirred anger at...

In Le Proces, or "The Trial", a bar in Ouagadougou, artist and co-founder Patrick Kabre works the crowd, raising belly...

Behind their homes is an oil pipeline and above them are high-voltage cables suspended between pylons. A little further off...

The European Union's energy commissioner hailed a "long-term strategic partnership" with Algeria Tuesday as the bloc turns to Africa's biggest...

When Wuri Bailo Keita's two-year-old daughter Fatoumatta developed a fever, he took her to hospital where she was diagnosed with...

Tunisian authorities intercepted two hundred migrants attempting to reach Europe northwards across the Mediterranean Sea over the weekend, the defense...

Climate change risks undermining global energy security unless the use of renewables is dramatically scaled up, the UN warned Tuesday,...

A diamond millionaire who scored a stunning breakthrough in nationwide elections in Lesotho last week announced Tuesday that he would...

Inside a dimly lit mud dwelling nestled within a rocky mountain in the southern African kingdom of Lesotho, Mamotonosi Ntefane,...

The Algerian and French prime ministers on Monday hailed a "new dynamic" as they launched a joint economic forum during...

A millionaire political novice won the most votes in legislative elections in Lesotho but fell short of securing a parliamentary...

Chad junta chief Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno on Monday said a "government of national union" would be created in the...

Everyone on board a boat died when it capsized in a flood-swollen river in Nigeria's Anambra state, President Muhammadu Buhari...

Egypt and Greece on Sunday said a deal allowing Turkish hydrocarbon exploration in Libya's Mediterranean waters was "illegal" as Athens...