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Sudanese security forces fired tear gas on Thursday at protesters rallying against the killing of dozens in a post-coup crackdown,...

Senegal will vote for mayors and local representatives on Sunday in the first election since last year's riots, in a...

The engineers aboard the floating power station on Lake Kivu could only watch nervously as the volcano in the distance...

Senior US diplomats met with pro-democracy activists Wednesday in Sudan as part of talks to discuss the way forward after...

Temba Bavuma and Rassie van der Dussen hit centuries and enabled South Africa to recover from a slow start in...

Ivory Coast coach Patrice Beaumelle on Wednesday railed against the state of the pitch in Douala where his team must...

US biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong on Wednesday opened a plant in Cape Town that will be the first in Africa...

Four-time champions Ghana were eliminated from the Africa Cup of Nations after crashing 3-2 to minnows Comoros in Group C...

Libya's parliamentary speaker Aguila Saleh said Tuesday that by the end of the month the committee responsible for overseeing elections...

A Rwandan court on Tuesday ruled that a prosecution appeal to increase a prison sentence against "Hotel Rwanda" hero Paul...

Freedoms are imperiled in Tunisia after the violent suppression of protests against President Kais Saied last week, rights groups warned...

At 92, Giddes Chalamanda has no idea what TikTok is. He doesn't even own a smartphone. And yet the Malawian...

Sudanese shuttered shops and barricaded streets with burning tyres and rocks Tuesday, staging angry rallies to protest against one of...

Doctors in Ethiopia's Tigray region are recycling surgical gloves and using salt to disinfect wounds as essential medical supplies run...

Sudanese shuttered shops and barricaded Khartoum streets on Tuesday in a civil disobedience campaign to protest one of the bloodiest...

Kenya's highest court began Tuesday weighing a legal bid to revive government plans to shake up the country's political system,...

Callisto Jokonya stands in the cavernous factory of Imperial Refrigeration and recalls the halcyon days. In the 1990s, his factory,...

The UN mission in Mali has suspended all but medical evacuation flights in the war-torn country pending negotiations with Malian...

Two deposed captains, Virat Kohli and Quinton de Kock, could play significant roles in a three-match one-day international series between...

In Augustine Eguavoen, Nigeria are relying on an interim appointment to lead them at the Africa Cup of Nations in...

Equatorial Guinea inflicted a first defeat in 36 games on Algeria on Sunday to leave the reigning champions in serious...

The hero of "Hotel Rwanda" failed to appear in a Kigali court on Monday as state prosecutors sought to increase...

Sudanese security forces  fired tear gas Monday at protesters opposed to last year's military coup, ahead of a visit by...

Dozens of Sudanese doctors demonstrated Sunday in Khartoum to denounce attacks by security forces against medical personnel and doctors during...

Mali's former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who led the West African country from 2013 until he was ousted in a...

Tunisia's crisis-stricken economy needs "deep reforms" such as slashing its vast public wage bill, the International Monetary Fund's outgoing country...

Demonstrations called by the ruling military in Mali against stringent regional sanctions were expected to kick off on Friday amid...

Lamine Bina casts a long shadow over his herd on a plain in the Central African Republic's rural northwest. In...

Late one night, South African journalist Simon Allison woke up his wife with an idea: a weekly African newspaper for...

Tunisia's protest over their bizarre Africa Cup of Nations defeat to Mali in which the referee blew the final whistle...