Africa

MADRID—A humanitarian aid group that monitors the plight of migrants taking perilous seaborne routes to Spain said that 21 women and one girl have died and several dozen more people ...

Armed men kidnapped 73 children from a school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara in the latest ...

GENEVA—A new coronavirus variant that was first detected in South Africa in May does not appear to be ...

South African scientists have been keeping a close eye on a new COVID-19 variant because of “its concerning ...

MADRID—At least 29 Africans, including seven children, died last week while trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands on ...

Atiku Bakari, 12, living in Cameroon's embattled Northwest Region, had gone to fetch firewood that fateful July 16, when ...

JOS, Nigeria—Citizens of Plateau state, Nigeria, sought to show the country's lawmakers the end result of a recent ...

DAKAR—Up to 48 people were missing on Friday after a boat carrying around 60 people capsized off the ...

Bamako—Mali's former prime minister Boubeye Maiga was arrested on Thursday for his role in the purchase of a ...

KADUNA, Nigeria—The Nigerian military is hunting for gunmen who attacked its premier defense academy early Aug. 24, killing ...

NAIROBI, Kenya—Police in Kenya’s capital say nine people are dead after a crane collapsed at a high-rise construction ...

DAR ES SALAAM—A gunman killed three police officers and a private security guard on a rampage through a ...

Christian residents of Nigeria’s Plateau state are ducking for cover as reprisal killings mount both in the state ...

TEGINA, Nigeria—After armed men snatched seven of Abubakar Adam's 11 children in northwestern Nigeria, he sold his car ...

CAIRO—Egypt closed its main border crossing point with the Gaza Strip on Monday amid tensions with the territory’s ...

LONDON/LAGOS—Nigeria expects to lift its ban on Twitter before the end of the year, Information Minister Lai Mohammed ...

NIAMEY—At least 16 people have been killed in an attack on a village in southwestern Niger where Islamist ...

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania—The Mauritanian Coast Guard has rescued a group of seven migrants from a stranded boat in the ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria—In a video, Boko Haram fighters and their families march in single file out of the tall ...

LUSAKA—Zambian President Edgar Lungu conceded defeat on Monday, after a landslide election win by opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema, ...

ALGIERS, Algeria—Authorities have detained 36 people in the brutal mob killing and burning of a man in a ...

N'DJAMENA—Around 11,000 people fleeing clashes between herders and fishermen in northern Cameroon arrived in neighboring Chad at the ...

ABIDJAN—Ivory Coast has declared a first case of the Ebola hemorrhagic virus in 25 years, the health minister ...

LAKE OSSA, Cameroon—A Cameroonian lake choked with invasive weeds may be a science project for biologists, but for ...

NAIROBI—U.S. President Joe Biden is sending his special envoy for the Horn of Africa to Ethiopia amid international ...

Gunmen of a Christian tribe attacked an all-Muslim Nigerian town on Aug. 7, leaving nine people dead, several ...

RABAT—Israel and Morocco plan to upgrade their restored diplomatic relations and open embassies within two months, Israel's foreign ...