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They turned up in a mob of several hundred at a migrant center in South Africa's Soweto township -- unemployed,...

Attacks on UN facilities, a surge in tribal clashes, lootings, rape, and anti-coup protests -- Sudan's Darfur region is reeling...

In one of South Africa's roughest townships, an overcrowded and dilapidated housing complex has maintained one rule for decades: No...

Thousands of Libyans on celebrated for a second day Friday 11 years since the revolt that toppled dictator Moamer Kadhafi,...

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

EU and African leaders agreed to a "renewed partnership" at a summit Friday with pledges of major investments, but Europe was...

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

The leader of Tanzania's main opposition party will stand trial for terrorism, a high court judge ruled Friday, in a...

Fighting in northern Ethiopia's Afar region has "engulfed" a camp housing refugees from neighboring Eritrea, the UN said Friday, killing...

Six African countries have been chosen to establish their own mRNA vaccine production, the World Health Organization said Friday, with...

Henry Nicholls and Matt Henry spearheaded a commanding display as New Zealand built a 387-run first-innings lead that left South...

Every day at the family grocery stall in a Tunis market, Bilel Jani sees the reality of a biting economic...

The United States on Thursday shipped nearly 5.2 million doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine to Egypt and Nigeria, a...

Algerian prosecutors on Thursday called for harsher penalties against journalist and press freedom activist Khaled Drareni, his lawyer said, after...

Belgium on Thursday gave the DR Congo an inventory of tens of thousands of art objects from the former Belgian...

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

For years, a family clan that kept lions to sow terror in the Libyan town of Tarhuna tortured and killed...

France announced Thursday that it was withdrawing its troops from Mali after a breakdown in relations with the country's ruling...

Ex-president Armando Guebuza on Thursday took the witness stand in  Mozambique's biggest corruption scandal, defending his government's decision to contract...

EU and African leaders on Thursday launched a two-day summit aimed at rebooting ties through pledges of major investment in...

Libyans on Thursday marked 11 years since the revolt that toppled dictator Moamer Kadhafi, but the democracy many hoped for...

President Emmanuel Macron welcomed African leaders for dinner in Paris Wednesday ahead of an expected announcement that France is withdrawing...

Sotheby's announced Wednesday that it would offer the largest-ever blue diamond to go up for auction at a sale in...

A Sierre Leone rebel on trial in Finland for war crimes in Liberia's bloody conflict has been released by the...

Burkina Faso strongman Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was inaugurated as president on Wednesday, just over three weeks after he led...

Nigeria's state-run oil company said it had started a 24-hour distribution of petrol to service stations to end a week-long...

Al-Shabaab militants launched simultaneous attacks on police stations around Somalia's capital Mogadishu overnight, killing two girls and wounding over a...

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

Eighteen people were killed on Tuesday in an attack in remote northeast DR Congo by CODECO, a notorious ethnic militia,...

France's top court on Tuesday confirmed that a probe should be closed into the shooting down of a presidential plane...