Africa

CAIRO—Egypt’s parliament on April 16 approved amendments to the constitution that could keep President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi in power until 2030, though they still have to be endorsed in a referendum ...

MAI MAHIU, Kenya—When Peter Muchiri bought his five-acre piece of land in 1969 in Kanairobi village in the ...

KHARTOUM—Sudan's main protest group demanded the immediate handover of power to a civilian transitional government on April 14, ...

JOHANNESBURG—Ten million people unemployed. A national debt of more than $200 billion. A nation ravaged by almost a ...

A measles epidemic has reportedly killed more than 1,200 people in Madagascar with more than 115,000 cases. The ...

Family, friends, and fans are remembering the achievements of a former television host whose life was unexpectedly cut ...

OTTAWA—Global Affairs Canada is warning Canadians to avoid all travel to Sudan after the country's longtime leader was ...

The latest protests were called to mark the 34th anniversary of the toppling of former President Jaafar Muhammad ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe—The death toll from the cyclone that ripped into southern Africa last month is now above 1,000, ...

ALGIERS—Algeria's interim president, in a televised speech to the nation, promised on April 9 to organize free elections ...

An African hunter who killed over 5,000 elephants says he is totally unrepentant after being singled out in ...

TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya—A warplane attacked Tripoli's only functioning airport on April 8 as eastern forces advancing on the Libyan ...

KHARTOUM—Sudanese soldiers intervened to protect several thousand demonstrators calling for an end to President Omar al-Bashir's rule on ...

Egypt has unveiled the 2,500-year-old mummy of a high priest at an ancient cemetery south of Cairo. Egyptologist ...

MUTARE, Zimbabwe—The environmental impacts by some Chinese companies operating in Zimbabwe can only be described as catastrophic, according ...

A pride of lions have eaten a suspected poacher who died from an elephant attack in the South ...

TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya—Eastern Libyan forces carried out air strikes on the southern part of Tripoli on April 7 and ...

  KIGALI—Rwanda began a week of solemn ceremonies on April 7 to commemorate the lives of 800,000 Tutsi ...

Kim Sue Endicott, a Southern California woman who was abducted in Uganda several days ago, was returned safely ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—The crew of the Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed shortly after takeoff last month performed all ...

KAMPALA—An American woman and her driver have been kidnapped at Uganda's most popular wildlife park by gunmen demanding ...

Affluent Nigerians are getting pizza delivered 4,000 miles from London. Nigerian Agriculture Minister Audu Ogbeh told the Senate ...

ALGIERS, Algeria—Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika will step down before his fourth term ends on April 28, his office ...

ALGIERS—Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Algiers on March 29 to demand the resignation ...

A selfless act by a 71-year-old woman has caught the attention of Zimbabwe's richest man, who called the ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia—A car bomb exploded near a hotel and restaurants in Mogadishu on March 28, killing at least ...

The deadly Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has now exceeded 1,000 cases and claimed ...