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French President Emmanuel Macron this week will announce that French troops will be withdrawn from Mali and redeployed elsewhere in...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

Fuel and cash shortages have forced humanitarian operations to a virtual standstill in Ethiopia's war-hit Tigray region, the UN's emergency...

Moroccan authorities plan to survey abandoned and unauthorized wells across the country, the official MAP news agency reported Thursday, after...

The former head of Eritrea's Orthodox church, who spent more than a decade under house arrest, has died aged 94,...

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday unveiled plans to muster investment of more than 150 billion euros for...

More than 200 judges and lawyers in black robes protested Thursday outside the main court in the Tunisian capital after...

Tanzania said Thursday it was lifting a ban on four newspapers and opening "a new chapter" with the media, as...

Thousands of Sudanese took to the streets Thursday in the latest mass rally protesting against last year's military coup that...

The parliament of war-torn Libya on Thursday appointed a former interior minister as prime minister, a challenge to interim premier...