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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Sierra Leone is to delay the phaseout of its old currency until next spring, the central bank said. On July...

Hundreds of Boko Haram jihadists have fled a forest enclave in northeast Nigeria, escaping air strikes by the military and...

On a chilly spring morning, a kilted piper playing the bagpipes led diplomats into Harare's stone-walled Anglican Cathedral for a...

President Joe Biden on Friday will welcome South African leader Cyril Ramaphosa to the White House, part of a renewed...

On a sandy street in a northern Malian town, armed guards take turns at a checkpoint next to two unmarked...

Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate recently traveled to the drought-ravaged Horn of Africa to hear from children suffering from starvation....

US climate envoy John Kerry on Thursday urged African countries to help overcome divisions between rich and poor nations at...