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Amnesty International on Tuesday urged Guinea's junta to pass a comprehensive law on violence against women and revise the definition...

Nigeria rice farmer Adamu Garba squelched barefoot through his paddy fields, surveying damage from devastating floods that have destroyed farmland...

South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma, who is facing corruption charges and served a short stint in jail, has said he...

He has been described as the financier of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda a businessman who allegedly turned his vast...

Felicien Kabuga, who goes on trial in the Hague on Thursday, rose from poverty to become one of Rwanda's richest...

At least five people, including two children, were killed Monday after a six-Storey building collapsed in a town on the...

Countless Guineans have waited 13 years for the trial of former junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara and others held responsible...

With Nigeria's economy struggling and insecurity rife, four top presidential candidates start campaigning this week for next February's election in...

Twenty years after Le Joola ferry sank, the Senegalese town where half of the 1,900 dead lived will on Monday...

Queen Elizabeth II's death earlier this month prompted a flood of tributes but not from everyone. In Britain's black community,...

Two years after Samuel Ashola was shot in the leg during a peaceful protest in Nigeria's economic capital Lagos, the...

One person was killed, and two others wounded in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday during a demonstration against...

For years, students in a South African township have seen their parents struggle to use trains for daily commutes, the...

Guinea's ruling military junta on Thursday accused the president of the West African regional bloc ECOWAS of "lies" over his...

French President Emmanuel Macron met Wednesday with the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, seeing progress in...

A Senegalese appeal court on Wednesday confirmed a prison sentence handed down to the mayor of Dakar, convicted of killing...

The leader of Tunisia's Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party was questioned through the night by counter-terrorism police over alleged complicity in the...

His Toyota Matrix has driven the equivalent of four times around the world and it would never pass an inspection...

Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi on Tuesday accused Rwanda of direct aggression, renewing charges as he addressed the...

Global leaders called Tuesday for urgent efforts to address global food insecurity amid fears of disastrous harvests next year, as...

Uganda's health ministry on Tuesday announced the country's first fatality from the highly contagious Ebola virus since 2019, declaring an...

Youngsters in Ivory Coast return to school this week with a sword of Damocles above their heads: those with average...

As flies buzz over his tiny body, two-year-old Sadak Ibrahim barely whimpers, too weak to cry or shoo them away...

Africa offers a vast underdeveloped market for global sports, with thousands of athletes ready to join international ranks if only...

UN investigators said Monday they believed Ethiopia's government was behind ongoing crimes against humanity in Tigray and warned the resumption...

Chad's foreign minister resigned on Monday, accusing the ruling junta of sidelining him at a key forum aimed at steering...

Benin's historic female warriors known as the Amazons of Dahomey are legendary across West Africa, but a Hollywood production is...

Twice former champions Asante Kotoko of Ghana were shocked by Rail Kadiogo of Burkina Faso on Sunday in the CAF...

As twilight nestles behind the mountains in Nongoma town, the birthplace of South Africa's ethnic Zulu group, thousands of young women...

Eight Namibian cheetahs arrived in India Saturday, decades after their local extinction, in an ambitious project to reintroduce the spotted...