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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...

A week-long petrol scarcity is fraying nerves in oil-producing Nigeria as gas stations run out of stock, causing long queues...

French President Emmanuel Macron this week will announce that French troops will be withdrawn from Mali and redeployed elsewhere in...

A week-long petrol scarcity is fraying nerves in oil-producing Nigeria as gas stations run out of stock, causing long queues...

The day breaks, and many of the thousands of Malian refugees in Ouallam are already up and about.  Some have...

Zimbabwe's former finance minister, Tendai Biti, was on Monday detained for several hours while campaigning for upcoming legislative by-elections in...

A popular Ghanaian activist who organized protests against President Nana Akufo-Addo's government was charged with treason on Monday after making...

Sudanese security forces shot dead two protesters on Monday in a crackdown on rallies against last year's military coup and...

Sadio Mane followed up helping Senegal win the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time by creating the goal...

Tunisian President Kais Saied gave himself sweeping powers over the judiciary on Sunday, prompting thousands to protest in central Tunis...

Libya's western-based upper house on Saturday defended a decision by lawmakers in the country's east to designate a new prime...

The Central African Republic's army, accompanied by a Russian paramilitary group, sparked panic earlier this week in the center of...

Many challenges face South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the aftermath of riots last July that left more than 350...

The United States on Friday shipped nearly 1.9 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to Mozambique and four other African countries in...

European Commissioner Ylva Johansson on Friday offered to deploy the EU's border agency to Senegal to help combat migrant smuggling,...

South Sudan risks a return to war, the United Nations warned Friday, with outbreaks of interethnic violence and political infighting...

Uganda should drop all charges against a prominent author who has fled into exile and instead investigate claims he was...