Africa

MOGADISHU—At least 20 people were killed and 30 wounded by a suicide car bomb just outside a restaurant near the port in Somalia's capital Mogadishu late on Friday, an emergency ...

JOHANNESBURG—South African police have seized hundreds of fake COVID-19 vaccines and arrested four suspects in connection with the ...

To talk to Barry Asake today, you could picture a 57-year-old architect working in downtown Washington and driving ...

GUSAU, Nigeria—Hundreds of Nigerian girls abducted last week from a boarding school in the country’s northwest have been ...

JANGEBE, Nigeria—Gunmen in Nigeria on Saturday released 27 teenage boys who were kidnapped from their school last week ...

KANO, Nigeria—Unidentified gunmen seized 317 schoolgirls in northwest Nigeria on Friday, police said, the second such kidnapping in ...

ROME—Italy paid tribute to its ambassador to Congo and his bodyguard who were killed in an attack on ...

NAIROBI, Kenya—Tanzania’s president is finally acknowledging that his country has a coronavirus problem after claiming for months that ...

CAIRO—The interior minister of Libya’s U.N.-backed government survived an ambush by gunmen on his motorcade on Feb. 21, ...

KAMPALA—Opposition leader Bobi Wine said on Monday he was dropping a legal challenge to Uganda's presidential election results ...

KINSHASA, Congo—The Italian ambassador to Congo and an Italian carabinieri police officer were killed on Feb. 22 during ...

ABUJA—A small Nigerian air force passenger plane crashed just outside Abuja airport after reporting engine failure on Sunday, ...

PARIS—A Sudanese asylum seeker stabbed and killed an employee at a migrant center in the southern French city ...

JOHANNESBURG—Scientists will meet on Thursday to advise South Africa's government on its next steps after a study suggested ...

ABUJA, Nigeria—Gunmen attacked a school in Nigeria’s north-central Niger State early Feb. 17, killing at least one student ...

DAKAR, Senegal—Guinea has officially declared it has an Ebola epidemic after at least three people have died and ...

KINSHASA—At least 60 people died when a passenger barge carrying more than 700 people became shipwrecked on the ...

CONAKRY—Guinea declared a new Ebola outbreak on Sunday when tests came back positive for the virus after three ...

BENI, Congo—A second case and death from Ebola has been recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu ...

JOHANNESBURG—Zambia and the International Monetary Fund begin discussing a loan program and debt relief for Africa's first pandemic-era ...

South Africa will move forward with its phase one vaccination program to inoculate its health care workers with ...

RABAT, Morocco—Heavy rains flooded an illegal garment factory in the northern Moroccan city of Tangier, killing at least ...

KAMPALA, Uganda—Ugandan opposition figure Bobi Wine is urging the international community to back up concerns over the country's ...

KAMPALA—Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine and his party said on Tuesday that around 3,000 of his supporters had ...

TRIPOLI—Libyans watching a peace process nearing a critical phase this week in Switzerland need only try driving from ...

KAMPALA, Uganda—Ugandan presidential challenger Bobi Wine on Feb. 1 filed a court challenge seeking to overturn the reelection ...

MOGADISHU—Nine people died after al-Qaeda-linked Islamist insurgents stormed a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu, battling security forces ...