Africa

PARIS—As it pays tribute Thursday to French soldiers killed in Mali and faces questions over a deadly airstrike, France is considering changing its military strategy against Islamic extremists in Africa’s ...

The United Kingdom said on Thursday it would extend a ban on travelers entering England to southern African ...

Seven stowaways detained in October during a security incident on an oil tanker off the Isle of Wight ...

PARIS—The French presidency announced that two French soldiers were killed on Jan. 2 in Mali when an improvised ...

NIAMEY—At least 70 civilians were killed in simultaneous attacks on two villages by suspected Islamist extremists in Niger, ...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon—More than 37 people are dead and 18 others seriously injured after a bus crash in Cameroon’s ...

KINSHASA, Congo—More than 30 people have died in an overnight capsizing on Lake Albert while trying to return ...

TUNIS, Tunisia—About 20 African migrants were found dead Thursday after their smuggling boat sank in the Mediterranean Sea ...

The United Kingdom has banned travellers from South Africa to prevent the spread of a new variant of ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia—A suicide bomber attacked a stadium in Somalia's central city of Galkayo Friday, killing 15 people shortly ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria—More than 300 schoolboys abducted last week by armed men in northwest Nigeria have been released, a ...

CAIRO—The U.S. Embassy in Khartoum said Dec. 14 that President Donald Trump's administration has removed Sudan from the ...

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump has ordered nearly all American troops to withdraw from Somalia, U.S. officials said on Friday, ...

DURBAN—An explosion rocked South Africa's second-largest crude oil refinery in Durban on Friday injuring seven people, local emergency ...

MAIDGURI, Nigeria—Suspected members of the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram killed at least 40 rice farmers and fishermen ...

BAMAKO—Al Qaeda-linked Islamist extremists rocketed French military bases in Kidal, Menaka, and Gao in northern Mali within the ...

Deaths from malaria due to disruptions during the coronavirus pandemic to services designed to tackle the mosquito-borne disease ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—President Roch Marc Christian Kabore will serve another five years as Burkina Faso’s president, according to ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—Fears of attacks by extremists prevented voting in many parts of Burkina Faso on Nov. 22, ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—An American citizen has been killed in the capital of the West African nation of Burkina ...

NAIROBI, Kenya—The leader of Ethiopia’s rebellious Tigray region has confirmed firing missiles at neighboring Eritrea’s capital and is ...

ADDIS ABABA—Two airports in Ethiopia's Amhara state which neighbors Tigray where federal troops are fighting local forces were ...

PARIS—French ground forces and military helicopters killed a jihadi commander linked with al-Qaida in Mali along with four ...

JOHANNESBURG —South Africa is opening up international travel to visitors from all countries in an effort to revive ...

MADRID—More than 1,600 migrants have either been rescued at sea or reached Spain's Canary Islands in small boats ...

Belgian police have arrested two underage people on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack, authorities said on Thursday. ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast—Security forces in Ivory Coast dispersed opposition supporters with tear gas as protesters erected barricades in ...