Conflicts

Italian ministers head to central Africa Wednesday in an urgent quest for new energy deals as Italy scrambles to break...

A long-awaited court set up to prosecute suspected war criminals in the Central African Republic postponed the start of its...

Libya's National Oil Corporation announced Tuesday the closure of a second export terminal, paralyzing the vital energy sector in a...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said it had resumed aid by road to the war-ravaged Ethiopian region...

Ethiopia on Thursday failed to block the United Nations from funding an international committee that will investigate human rights violations...

The UN Security Council on Thursday voted unanimously for a new African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia, where Al-Shabaab insurgents...

A Liberian accused of having been a rebel leader during the deadly civil war that tore his country apart has...

The United States on Tuesday expressed "concern" over "growing tensions" in South Sudan, and called on all parties to respect...

Ethiopia has declared a conditional truce, and their rebel opponents in Tigray have agreed to cease hostilities if certain terms...

With the world focused on Ukraine, UN mediators are trying to avoid a political crisis degenerating into new violence in...

Rising prices for food, sent soaring by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, are stoking fears of hunger and turmoil in a...

From airlines in Nigeria to shoppers in Malawi, Africans are feeling the impact of the Ukraine crisis in wrenching increases...

Catholic group Sant'Egidio has urged Senegal's military to end an operation against southern separatists and called for dialogue, after the...

The scene has become all-too-common during Ethiopia's drawn-out war: thousands of Eritrean refugees, shell-shocked and separated from loved ones, fleeing...

When Tunda Henry's family fled South Sudan's brutal civil war five years ago, they vowed to return after the upheaval....

France's planned military withdrawal from Mali has opened the door to talks between the Malian government and al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadists, which...

Mali's army-led government on Friday asked France to withdraw its forces from the Sahel state "without delay", calling into question...

The shell crashed through Aicha Nur's flimsy hut just as she was serving a lunch of bread and milk to...

Tigrayan fighters deliberately killed civilians and gang-raped dozens of women and underage girls in two towns in Ethiopia's Amhara region...

Fuel and cash shortages have forced humanitarian operations to a virtual standstill in Ethiopia's war-hit Tigray region, the UN's emergency...

As Tony Ukety peers into a microscope in an effort to wipe out a devastating tropical disease, he is acutely...

Doctors in Ethiopia's Tigray region are recycling surgical gloves and using salt to disinfect wounds as essential medical supplies run...

Ethiopia has asked the UN health agency to investigate its chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for "harmful misinformation" and "misconduct", accusing...