Africa

NHIALDIU, South Sudan—Wrapping an arm around her stomach, the young woman hung her head and recounted the day in early November when she and a friend were bound, dragged into ...

ABU DHABI—The United States wants to continue support to the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen's war and will remain ...

CAIRO—Yemen's warring parties will meet in Sweden this week for another attempt at talks aimed at halting their ...

Cameroon prisoners transform worn-out tires picked up off the streets into brand new, durable and marketable sandals.

BANJUL, Gambia—Hundreds of Gambians were grateful for the jobs created by a Chinese-run fish processing plant that arrived ...

A large lion was filmed fending off more than 20 hyenas, captured in footage shot by the BBC. ...

Nigeria's President Buhari on Dec. 2 denied claims that he had died and been replaced by a Sudanese ...

NAIROBI—The U.S. military said it killed nine extremists in an airstrike targeting al Shabaab in Lebede, Somalia, as ...

JUBA, South Sudan—125 women and girls have been raped, whipped, and clubbed in attacks so shocking that some ...

JOHANNESBURG—Congo's deadly Ebola outbreak is now the second largest in history, behind the devastating West Africa outbreak that ...

LONDON/MOSCOW—The impoverished state of Central African Republic landed a windfall on Nov. 27, at least on paper, when ...

By early Nov. 24, police had arrested 20 suspects in connection with the abduction of 23-year-old Silvia Romano, ...

CAIRO—The ISIS terrorist group claimed responsibility for five attacks in an area it calls the "State of West ...

About 650,000 public sector workers went on strike and thousands joined protests across Tunisia on Nov. 22 over ...

ADDIS ABABA—Ethiopia chose a former exiled dissident to head its election board on Nov. 22—part of a dizzying ...

NAIROB—Gunmen kidnapped an Italian volunteer and shot and wounded a woman and four children in Kenya late on ...

TRIPOLI—Libya expects to end a long-running liquidity crisis by early 2019 as a foreign currency tax helps the ...

Toukam, in his early 30s, is among thousands of desperate young people from sub-Saharan African wanting to migrate to ...

In Kenya, most of the refugees in the Kakuma camp are from South Sudan, Africa’s youngest war-torn nation, ...

A South African wildlife sanctuary says it is prepared to take legal action against the government over custody ...

Mountain gorillas have come back from the edge of extinction, and now more than 1,000 specimens are thriving ...

WASHINGTON — Two prominent U.S. senators expressed alarm on Nov. 13 about the military and political consequences if ...

GENEVA—The emergencies chief for the World Health Organization predicted on Tuesday, Nov. 13,  that Congo's Ebola outbreak will ...

ADDIS ABABA—Ethiopia arrested the former head of a military-run industrial conglomerate on Nov. 13 and flew him in ...

NAIROBI, Kenya—When he was growing up in a small town in Uganda, Allan Herbert didn't feel he was ...

KHARTOUM—Many cash machines in the Sudanese capital have run out of banknotes as the government scrambles to prevent ...

KINSHASA—The current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the most severe in the country's history ...