Africa

NAIROBI—Somali money transfer companies moved more than $3.7 million in cash between suspected weapons traffickers in recent years, including to a Yemeni under U.S. sanctions for alleged militant links, according ...

South Africa's State Security Agency on Monday said it was aware of reports of an alleged plot to assassinate ...

WASHINGTON—United Airlines said Wednesday it plans to add new non-stop flights to Africa, India, and Hawaii as it ...

A U.S. service member was injured in Somalia on Monday morning by the terrorist group al-Shabaab, according to ...

BOSASO, Somalia—Two Somali special forces soldiers were killed and a U.S. officer was seriously wounded in a car ...

Sudan’s transitional government agreed in principle to separate religion from the state, putting an end to 30 years ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe—The number of elephants dying in western Zimbabwe from a suspected bacterial infection, possibly from eating poisonous ...

JOHANNESBURG—Honking and drumming, tens of thousands of people protested Saturday in Mauritius over the government’s slow response to ...

KAMPALA, Uganda—Ten children have been killed in a lightning strike in a remote Ugandan town near the Congo ...

LAGOS—Nigerian Gbemisola Ijigbamigbe's right leg was virtually paralyzed after she contracted wild polio aged 11 months. Now the 28-year-old leads ...

Sudanese PM Abdalla Hamdok said he held "direct and transparent" talks with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, ...

A new outbreak of the Ebola virus has infected 100 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

BAMAKO, Mali—Soldiers who ousted Mali's president in a coup promised on Aug. 19 to oversee elections within a ...

Sudan on Wednesday announced the firing of a diplomat who told a news agency the day prior that ...

BAMAKO—Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita resigned on Tuesday and dissolved parliament hours after soldiers detained him at gunpoint. ...

Mauritius has arrested the captain of a Japanese bulk carrier that ran aground off its coast, causing a ...

MOGADISHU—At least 16 people were killed in an attack on Sunday by the al Shabaab terrorist group at ...

MOGADISHU—Islamic terrorists stormed a high-end seaside hotel in Mogadishu on Sunday, killing at least seven people and wounding ...

NIAMEY, Niger—Armed forces from Niger and France have been deployed to pursue the gunmen who killed seven aid ...

JOHANNESBURG—Thousands of students, environmental activists, and residents of Mauritius were working around the clock on Aug. 9, trying ...

NIAMEY—Gunmen on motorcycles killed six French tourists and their Nigerien guide and driver in a wildlife park in ...

NAIROBI, Kenya—A car bomb exploded at the gates of a military base in Somalia's capital Saturday, killing at ...

The Indian Ocean island of Mauritius has declared a “state of environmental emergency.”

HARARE, Zimbabwe—A Zimbabwean investigative journalist will remain in jail after a judge dismissed his bail application on Aug. ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—Ethiopians in the capital are celebrating progress in the construction of the country’s dam on the ...

GABORONE, Botswana—Botswana’s government says it still doesn’t know what caused the deaths of hundreds of elephants in recent ...

JOHANNESBURG—Global hot spot South Africa is seeing a “huge discrepancy” between confirmed COVID-19 deaths and an unusually high ...