Conflicts

A regional force fighting jihadists in Mozambique said on Tuesday it had opened an investigation over a video showing some...

World food prices fell for a ninth month in a row in December but hit their highest level on record...

Nineteen people have been killed in twin car bombings in central Somalia claimed by Al-Shabaab, a local militia commander in...

Ethiopia's federal police began to deploy on Thursday in the capital of war-torn Tigray for the first time in 18...

A high-level Ethiopian government delegation on Monday made the first visit to the capital of rebel-held Tigray since the signing...

The International Criminal Court will decide Thursday on an appeal by a Ugandan child soldier-turned-commander in the Lord's Resistance Army...

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization, said Wednesday that his uncle had been "murdered" by Eritrean...

Pope Francis on Wednesday called on people to spend less on Christmas presents and celebrations, and donate the money saved...

The body of a Zambian student who died while fighting in Ukraine after he was recruited in a Russian jail...

The Burkina Faso government has announced plans to raise 152 million euros for a "fund to support the war" against...

In a displacement camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Eric, Samuel, Tuyisenge and Florence recounted walking for miles to...

According to a statement released on Wednesday by African Union (AU) High Representative for the Horn of Africa and former...

Suspected jihadists have ambushed and killed 13 soldiers in Burkina Faso's eastern province, security sources told AFP on Sunday in...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has dug a rift between African countries and supporters in the West who are urging the...

The first formal peace talks between the warring sides in the brutal two-year conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region went into...

South Sudan's vice president, Riek Machar, has rejected a move to kick him out of the ruling party, a sign...

Ethiopia said Tuesday its forces had seized three towns in Tigray, the latest major battleground shifts in the brutal war,...

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

Authorities in Ethiopia's rebel-held Tigray region said they had withdrawn fighters from occupied parts of a neighboring region to counter...

The Somali government announced on Monday a top Al-Shabaab militant, who had a $3.0-million US bounty on his head, had...

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

The court of appeal has dismissed a petition by a man who  sought compensation from a hospital after his wife...

Quite often we like to tell the grieving constituency amongst us to “accept and move on” without interrogating the legitimacy...

Ekuru Aukot has announced that his sister is among the 11 people killed following the banditry attack in Turkana East, Turkana...

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

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

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

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

Ten people were killed in a second day of air strikes on Ethiopia's Tigray region Wednesday, hospital officials said, in...

Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud urged citizens to stay away from areas controlled by Al-Shabaab jihadists as he vowed to...