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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...

At least six people were killed in the Somali capital Thursday in a suicide bombing claimed by jihadists at a...

Uganda protested Thursday at an order by the UN's highest court for it to pay the Democratic Republic of Congo...

An award-winning Ugandan author and fierce government critic who fled the country after being "tortured" in custody told AFP on...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers a State of the Nation address on Thursday facing demands for a master plan...

Religious police in northern Nigeria's city of Kano have destroyed nearly four million bottles of beer, on grounds that sale...

Usman Mohamed's hometown of Baga on the shores of Lake Chad was once overrun by jihadists, forcing him to flee,...

Tunisian judges on Wednesday started a widely observed nationwide strike, days after President Kais Saied announced he would dissolve a...

As Tony Ukety peers into a microscope in an effort to wipe out a devastating tropical disease, he is acutely...

Burundian civil society groups on Wednesday angrily reproached the EU over its decision to resume financial aid to the country,...

Dozens of forest rangers, firefighters and volunteers struggled Monday to stem a blaze that broke out in Kenya's Aberdare national...

Sudanese security forces fired tear gas Monday at thousands of demonstrators calling for civilian rule and justice for protesters killed...

Dabaso Galgalo is now used to the smell and grisly spectacle of rotting flesh festering in the scorching heat as Kenya...

"I don't sing to avenge my family, but because other innocent people who know nothing about politics continue to die,"...

Dakar exploded with joy at the final whistle as Sadio Mane's Senegal beat Mohamed Salah's Egypt for their first ever...