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A remote oasis in Tunisia's desert was exhausted by decades of wasteful water use for agriculture -- but now pioneers...

Kenya said Thursday it was investigating allegations that thousands of donated condoms, mosquito nets and life-saving medicines were stolen from...

DR Congo's most notorious armed group is moving inland from the border with Uganda after Ugandan and Congolese troops attacked...

Ugandan author and activist Norman Tumuhimbise and a female journalist have been charged with cyber-stalking the country's president, their lawyer...

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...

Somalia has again pushed back the deadline for completing lower house elections, delaying until March 31 a process that is...

Somalia failed to conclude elections for the lower house of parliament by a deadline Tuesday, marking the latest hitch in...

Hundreds of unaccompanied foreign minors in the migrant hub of Cyprus, one of the smallest EU member states, have tales...

The Pritzker Prize, architecture's most prestigious award, was awarded Tuesday to Burkina Faso-born architect Diebedo Francis Kere -- the first...

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

In a hall at Abidjan university, around 20 people are getting dance therapy, part of an innovative event designed to...

Sudanese security forces fired tear gas Monday to disperse protesters in several cities across the northeast African nation who marched...

Ukraine's government continues to function, the banking system is stable and debt payments are viable in the short term, but...

Senegal's army has launched a military operation against rebels in the southern region of Casamance, the chief of staff said...

Kenyan police said Monday they had arrested the suspected ringleader behind an assault on a female diplomat that sparked outrage...

The death toll from a cyclone that struck Mozambique this week climbed to 12 on Sunday after devastating wind and...

Chad's military government and dozens of opposition groups started peace talks on Sunday in Qatar as a first step towards...

Households across North Africa are rushing to stock up on flour, semolina and other staples as food prices rise following...

The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said on Sunday that government forces were responsible for burning a Tigrayan man to...

Zambia's former president Rupiah Banda died on Friday at the age of 85 after a long battle with colon cancer,...

The Security Council quietly let a deadline pass for it to renew UN authorization to fight piracy in waters off...

Ugandan author and human rights activist, Norman Tumuhimbise, has been arrested ahead of his book launch, his lawyer said Friday,...

The head of France's anti-jihadist mission in the Sahel on Friday said French forces that were being pulled out of...

Dozens of civilians and members of a Tuareg rebel group that signed a peace deal with the government have been...

Erdogan rolls out the red carpet for Israeli President Isaac Herzog and calls it a turning point in history. For...

US officials said in a scathing critique Thursday that poor command, inadequate security and a "climate of complacency" prevented US...

Two protesters were shot dead during protests in Sudan on Thursday, as UN and African Union officials warned that the...

Raymond Zondo, whose three-year investigation detailed rampant corruption under former president Jacob Zuma, was Thursday named chief justice of South...

Elephants in Tanzania's famed Ngorongoro conservation area have killed a Maasai man who had gone there hunting for firewood, police...