Africa

CONAKRY—Guinea declared a new Ebola outbreak on Sunday when tests came back positive for the virus after three people died and four fell ill in the southeast—the first resurgence of ...

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 ...

MOGADISHU—A suspected suicide car bomb exploded on Sunday in Somalia's capital and was followed by a shootout between ...

Novavax announced that its vaccine against the CCP virus was shown to be 89.3 percent effective in preventing ...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon—At least 53 people have died and 21 others were injured in Cameroon when a bus collided ...

KAMPALA—A Ugandan court ordered security forces on Monday to free opposition leader and pop star Bobi Wine, whose ...

THE HAGUE—The International Criminal Court on Sunday said it had taken into custody a former Central African Republic ...

The Biden administration will reimpose a travel ban on most non-U.S. citizens entering the country from the United ...

JOHANNESBURG—The death toll from storm Eloise rose to at least 13 on Monday after heavy winds, rain and ...

JOHANNESBURG—The coastal city of Beira in Mozambique, which houses one of the country's most important ports, has seen ...

Britain is banning all arrivals from Tanzania and Democratic Republic of Congo from Friday to stop the spread ...

The film “Obsessed: Canada’s Coercive Diplomacy” explores the possibility that Canada’s foreign aid to Africa may be doing ...

OTTAWA—The federal government says it is "deeply concerned" about the political situation in Uganda, but that it has ...

UNITED NATIONS—Two U.N. peacekeepers were killed in an attack Monday in the Central African Republic, the United Nations ...

CAIRO—The death toll from tribal violence between Arabs and non-Arabs in Sudan’s West Darfur province climbed to at ...

KAMPALA—Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine's party said on Sunday that it was preparing to challenge President Yoweri Museveni's ...

NAIROBI, Kenya—The U.S. military says its troop withdrawal from Somalia is complete, in one of the last actions ...

KAMPALA, Uganda—Uganda’s electoral commission said Saturday that longtime President Yoweri Museveni has won a sixth five-year term, while ...

An Australian virologist will be among a team from the World Health Organisation (WHO) due to arrive in ...