Africa

Rwanda is planning to create a country-wide DNA database that will collect samples from all 12 million of its citizens, in what will make it the first of its kind ...

CHIMANIMANI, Zimbabwe—A week after Cyclone Idai lashed southern Africa, flooding still raged on March 21, as torrential rains ...

A man shown in viral video shooting dead a sleeping lion has been identified by multiple news outlets ...

CHIPINGE, Zimbabwe—Mozambique on Wednesday began three days of national mourning for more than 200 victims of Cyclone Idai, ...

A former Texas state lawmaker is spearheading a campaign against radical environmentalists and powerful international organizations, whose policies ...

PARIS/WASHINGTON/ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—Europe and Canada said they would seek their own guarantees over the safety of Boeing's 737 ...

CHIMANIMANI/MUTARE, Zimbabwe—What started out like a normal day for Dale Tauya, a 14-year-old student at St. Charles Lwanga ...

A cyclone in the eastern African nation of Mozambique may have killed 1,000 people, according to the country’s ...

ADDIS ABABA/PARIS—Ethiopia said on Sunday, March 17, the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane that killed 157 people ...

ADDIS ABABA/PARIS—The hunt for the cause of an Ethiopian Airlines plane crash that killed all 157 people on ...

ADDIS ABABA/EJERE, Ethiopia—Yared Getachew, the pilot of the doomed Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed in Ejere on March ...

Towering high above the Kenyan landscape, this female elephant is huge, her long tusks curving right down to the ground. ...

BENGALURU, India/OSLO, Norway—Travel website Kayak is making changes to let customers exclude specific aircraft types from searches, and ...

LAGOS, Nigeria—Frantic rescue efforts were underway in Nigeria on Wednesday, March 13, after a 3-story school building collapsed ...

ALGIERS—Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika abandoned his bid for a fifth term in power on March 11, bowing to ...

EJERE, Ethiopia—Authorities in Ethiopia, China, and Indonesia grounded all Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft Monday, March 11, following ...

Three Austrian physicians. The co-founder of an international aid organization. A career ambassador. The wife and children of ...

A Greek man said he would have been the 150th passenger on the Nairobi-bound Ethiopian Airlines Boeing plane ...

ALGIERS—President Abdelaziz Bouteflika flew home to Algeria on March 10 after spending two weeks in a Swiss hospital, ...

NAIROBI—An Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet bound for Nairobi crashed minutes after take-off on March 10, killing all 157 ...

Eight American citizens were among the 157 killed when Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 went down in unexplained circumstances ...

UPDATE: Ethiopia's state television has announced that all 149 passengers and eight crew members aboard the crashed Ethiopian ...

ST. GALLEN, Switzerland—Female genital mutilation (FGM) is still occurring because the world is turning a blind eye to ...

ALPHONSE ATOLL, Seychelles—An unprecedented mission to explore the Indian Ocean and document changes taking place beneath the waves ...

JOHANNESBURG—She stumbled across the plains, gripping the hands of her frightened young daughters, her helper dragging panels of ...

Anjin Investments, a diamond company partly owned by the Chinese, is set to return to the mines in ...

ALGIERS—Algerian independence war veterans said protesters demanding ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika step down after 20 years in power ...