Africa

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—President Roch Marc Christian Kabore will serve another five years as Burkina Faso’s president, according to provisional results announced by the National Independent Electoral Commission on Nov. 26. ...

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 ...

PARIS—France’s defense minister says French military forces fighting Islamic terrorists in West Africa “put away” more than 50 ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—Survivors of a massacre by rebels in western Ethiopia on Sunday counted 54 bodies in a ...

An American hostage held by a group of armed men in West Africa was rescued early on Oct. ...

France's interior minister has said the country is engaged in a war against Islamist ideology and warned that ...

Seven Nigerian stowaways detained on an oil tanker off the Isle of Wight on Sunday have been bailed ...

Police are questioning seven Nigerian nationals following Sunday’s maritime security incident off the Isle of Wight, the Hampshire ...

The Greek operator of an oil tanker stormed by British forces on Sunday has expressed gratitude to the ...

Israel and Sudan agreed on Friday to take steps to normalize relations in a deal brokered with the ...

President Donald Trump announced Monday he will delist Sudan as a state sponsor of terrorism because Sudan has ...

BAMAKO, Mali—A 75-year-old French aid worker held hostage for four years by Islamic extremists in Mali arrived Friday ...

Migrants wanting to relocate to Australia to live permanently with the person they're in a romantic relationship with ...

OUAGADOUGOU—Eighteen Burkinabe nationals died when a bus they were traveling in crashed near the town of Bouake in ...

HARARE—Zimbabwe suspects a bacterial disease called haemorrhagic septicaemia is behind the recent deaths of more than 30 elephants ...

The White House has announced plans to establish a joint pandemic research institute between the United States and ...

ABUJA—At least 28 people were killed on Wednesday when a gas tanker exploded in the central Nigerian state ...

GABORONE, Botswana—The sudden deaths of some 330 elephants in northwestern Botswana earlier this year may have occurred because ...

NAIROBI—Somali money transfer companies moved more than $3.7 million in cash between suspected weapons traffickers in recent years, ...