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Soldiers in Burkina Faso staged mutinies at several barracks to demand the sacking of the country's military top brass and...

The US army has confirmed the presence of Russian mercenaries from the Wagner group in Mali, which the African nation's...

In the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in a province under military control, a rebel militia administers a...

Sudan's second most powerful leader met with Ethiopia's defense minister Saturday on a rare visit to Addis Ababa by an...

Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the powerful son of Uganda's president, met with Rwandan President Paul Kagame in Kigali on Saturday in a...

Having benefited from playing under Steven Gerrard at Rangers, Joe Aribo is starring for Nigeria at the Africa Cup of...

An elephant in Kenya has given birth to twins, an extremely rare event, conservationists said Thursday. Conservation group Save the...

Tunisian President Kais Saied assured Thursday that the country's freedoms are "guaranteed"  after rights groups warned of a threat signaled...

Authorities in the Burkina Faso capital on Thursday banned two planned weekend protests at lack of security in the troubled...

Sudanese security forces fired tear gas on Thursday at protesters rallying against the killing of dozens in a post-coup crackdown,...

Senegal will vote for mayors and local representatives on Sunday in the first election since last year's riots, in a...

The engineers aboard the floating power station on Lake Kivu could only watch nervously as the volcano in the distance...

Senior US diplomats met with pro-democracy activists Wednesday in Sudan as part of talks to discuss the way forward after...

Temba Bavuma and Rassie van der Dussen hit centuries and enabled South Africa to recover from a slow start in...

Ivory Coast coach Patrice Beaumelle on Wednesday railed against the state of the pitch in Douala where his team must...

US biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong on Wednesday opened a plant in Cape Town that will be the first in Africa...

Four-time champions Ghana were eliminated from the Africa Cup of Nations after crashing 3-2 to minnows Comoros in Group C...

Libya's parliamentary speaker Aguila Saleh said Tuesday that by the end of the month the committee responsible for overseeing elections...

A Rwandan court on Tuesday ruled that a prosecution appeal to increase a prison sentence against "Hotel Rwanda" hero Paul...

Freedoms are imperiled in Tunisia after the violent suppression of protests against President Kais Saied last week, rights groups warned...

At 92, Giddes Chalamanda has no idea what TikTok is. He doesn't even own a smartphone. And yet the Malawian...

Sudanese shuttered shops and barricaded streets with burning tyres and rocks Tuesday, staging angry rallies to protest against one of...

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

Sudanese shuttered shops and barricaded Khartoum streets on Tuesday in a civil disobedience campaign to protest one of the bloodiest...

Kenya's highest court began Tuesday weighing a legal bid to revive government plans to shake up the country's political system,...

Callisto Jokonya stands in the cavernous factory of Imperial Refrigeration and recalls the halcyon days. In the 1990s, his factory,...

The UN mission in Mali has suspended all but medical evacuation flights in the war-torn country pending negotiations with Malian...

Two deposed captains, Virat Kohli and Quinton de Kock, could play significant roles in a three-match one-day international series between...

In Augustine Eguavoen, Nigeria are relying on an interim appointment to lead them at the Africa Cup of Nations in...

Equatorial Guinea inflicted a first defeat in 36 games on Algeria on Sunday to leave the reigning champions in serious...