Africa

CAIRO—A tanker transporting liquefied natural gas broke down in the Suez Canal on Wednesday but traffic in the global waterway was unaffected, a canal spokesperson said. The Bahamas-flagged Grace Emilia ...

A recent visit to Africa by China's newly-appointed foreign minister, Qin Gang, has restoked fears of the Chinese ...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—Multiple terrorist attacks across Burkina Faso over several days have resulted in the death of at least ...

ANTANARIVO, Madagascar—Flooding and landslides caused by the passage of tropical storm Cheneso across Madagascar caused 30 deaths, left ...

ABUJA, Nigeria—Two separate road crashes involving trucks in southern Nigeria left 20 people dead including children, authorities said ...

CAIRO—Italy’s prime minister held talks in Libya on Saturday with officials from the country’s west-based government focusing on ...

The Biden administration has announced that it will impose a 20-year mining moratorium on thousands of acres of ...

“I won’t let you be ... You just have to kill me …” were Martinez Zogo's last words ...

The U.S. military carried out a counterterrorism operation on Jan. 25 in Somalia that killed multiple ISIS terrorists, ...

CAIRO—A boat carrying Europe-bound migrants capsized off Libya, killing at least eight people, while 58 others were still ...

U.S. accident investigators disagree with Ethiopian authorities over the cause of a sensor malfunction that preceded the March ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia—Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists stormed a regional government office in Somalia's capital Sunday, and five civilians were killed, the ...

South Africa’s foreign minister on Monday deflected criticism of joint military drills planned with Russia and China, saying ...

When police special forces teams, backed by Interpol agents, smashed into a luxury house in the affluent Johannesburg ...

BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo—Suspected terrorists killed about 20 people in a raid on a village in eastern ...

WASHINGTON—A U.S. military strike has killed approximately 30 Islamist al-Shabaab terrorists near the central Somali town of Galcad, ...

The Republic of Djibouti has signed a preliminary $1 billion deal with a Hong Kong company to build ...

UNICEF reports "human trafficking, modern slavery" is the second largest criminal industry in the world, raking in over ...

KINSHASA, Congo—At least 145 passengers are missing and feared dead after a motorized boat overloaded with goods and ...

China, Russia, and South Africa will conduct joint military exercises off the coast of South Africa in February. ...

UNITED NATIONS—Al-Qaida and ISIS terrorist groups are driving insecurity in central Mali and continue to clash near populated ...

BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo—The atmosphere at the Pentecostal church in the city of Kasindi in eastern Congo ...

ABUJA, Nigeria—A Nigerian priest was burned alive in his home in the country's north on Sunday, police said. ...

BAMAKO, Mali—Coordinated attacks by Islamic terrorists have killed 14 Malian soldiers and wounded nearly a dozen, the army ...

KAMPALA, Uganda—Uganda's latest outbreak of the Ebola virus is over, the government and the World Health Organization said ...

On a rainy Wednesday morning, with a gunmetal gray sky overhead, four men in their late 20s share ...

DAKAR, Senegal—At least 40 people were killed and dozens injured in a bus crash in central Senegal, the ...