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Five workers with the French medical charity MSF have been kidnapped in Cameroon's Far North, a region troubled by jihadist...

Somalia on Friday extended its deadline to finish voting for the lower house of parliament, the latest in a series...

The world has a rare opportunity to clean up the planet for future generations by uniting behind an ambitious treaty...

Russia has been branded a pariah for invading Ukraine, but in the remote Central African Republic, the country has fans...

A UN expert on Thursday urged Sudanese forces to stop firing live ammunition and tear gas at anti-coup protesters in...

Two manga-like avatars lock swords against a comic strip backdrop, as Alexander Poone explains the different worlds of "The Traveler"...

A commission created by the junta that seized power in Burkina Faso last month has proposed a 30-month transition period...

Malawi said Thursday it will launch a nationwide polio vaccination campaign next month following the detection of its first case...

Her tiny mouth is constantly open, trying to suck in air. Adama Assan is four months old, but tips the...

Guinea-Bissau's former prime minister, Domingos Simoes Pereira, has been banned from leaving the country due to a probe into an...

The Central African Republic (CAR) says it has launched an investigation into four French Foreign Legionnaires who are part of...

Five Chadian soldiers have been killed by jihadists in the Lake Chad region, a vast marshland that has become a...

At 47, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the son of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, has spent half his life hitting out at...

Cyclone Emnati overnight lashed the island nation of Madagascar, still reeling from the impact of another cyclone earlier this month,...

An award-winning Ugandan author who fled the country after being charged with insulting President Yoweri Museveni and his son has...

Under the blazing sun, Salado Adan Mohamed puts the finishing touches to her makeshift shelter, cobbled together from branches and...

The number of major wildfires worldwide will rise sharply in coming decades due to global warming, and governments are ill-prepared...

The United Nations slammed baby formula makers Wednesday for "unethical" marketing strategies, accusing them of aggressively targeting expecting parents and...

Eighteen civilians have been killed in two suspected jihadist attacks in the west of Niger near the Sahel nation's border...

Thousands of Senegalese gathered on Tuesday for the inauguration of a 50,000-seater stadium aimed at making the country Africa's go-to...

Security in Mali has improved but freedom of expression has worsened, an independent UN expert said Tuesday, in the latest...

The death toll from an accidental  explosion at an illegal gold mine in southwestern Burkina Faso rose on Tuesday to...

The UN warned Tuesday that authorities and aid workers were racing against the clock to protect people as Madagascar braces...

Sudan has condemned neighboring Ethiopia for launching power generation at a controversial dam on the Blue Nile without the agreement...

The International Monetary Fund could stop its program in Somalia in three months if long-postponed national elections encounter fresh delays,...

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

Mali's lawmakers on Monday approved a plan allowing the military junta to rule for up to five years, AFP journalists...

Israel and Morocco are seeking to nearly quadruple their annual trade to more than $500 million, Israel's economy minister said...

Thousands of Sudanese protesters on Monday marched against the October military coup which has led to scores of arrests, as...

The United States and Egypt on Monday launched a working group to prepare for the COP27 climate summit this year,...