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Gunmen from heavily-armed criminal gangs killed dozens of people, including 11 security personnel, in separate attacks in northwest and central...

Dango Ouattara scored on the stroke of half-time as 10-man Burkina Faso completed a hat-trick of Africa Cup of Nations...

Malian cotton farmers are set to produce a bumper crop this year, but Mahamadou Konate is worried, belying the smile...

Samuel Eto'o left for Europe to become one of the greatest African footballers of all time but it was in...

The United States voiced alarm Thursday after Ethiopia's Tigray rebels announced a military operation in the neighboring Afar region, but...

Morocco on Thursday inaugurated construction of an anti-Covid vaccine manufacturing plant in partnership with Swedish firm Recipharm, the official news...

Denmark announced Thursday it would withdraw a newly deployed contingent of 100 troops from Mali after repeated demands, which Copenhagen...

Chad's junta announced Thursday that a national forum designed to chart the country's future after it seized power last year...

The Cameroonian government wants to "improve" access to the Olembe Stadium in Yaounde after the deadly stampede that killed eight...

Zimbabwe's main opposition leader is upbeat about victory in next year's elections, despite a crackdown that he compares to being...

The death toll from a storm that struck three southern African countries rose to 70 on Thursday as emergency teams...

Kenyans are mourning the death of the country's best known football fan, a colorful former newspaper vendor who was found...

A soccer star shot dead. Parliament gutted by fire. People trampled to death in riots. Even with the most spectacular...

European nations pushed back Wednesday against the Malian military government's demands that newly arrived Danish special forces fighting jihadists immediately...

A prominent Ugandan author accused of insulting the country's ruling family was freed on Wednesday after being detained despite a...

Forced to marry as a teenager, Merline fled Cameroon to escape, embarking on a years-long journey blighted by sexual violence...

Jihadist attacks in northern Ivory Coast have ramped up hostility towards the Fulani, a mainly Muslim ethnic group that some...

Libya's parliament, in a push to replace interim Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah, on Tuesday published criteria governing candidates for the...

A young Egyptian man scored an own goal by pretending to take a university exam for professional footballer Mostafa Mohamed,...

As Burkina Faso's junta consolidates its position after seizing power in a coup, we look at the recent history of...

A 10-year-old rhino that had its horn brutally hacked off returned to the wild Monday, after 30 operations over six...

Kenya and Mauritania have received nearly two million new doses of Covid-19 vaccines from the United States in the latest...

Sudanese gathered to demand justice Monday for the scores killed in a months-long crackdown since a military coup -- then...

Libya's interim Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah on Sunday called for a constitution to be established before holding delayed presidential and...

Cameroon's government said Sunday that 16 people were killed in a fire caused by fireworks in a nightclub in the...

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...