Africa

NYATIKE, Kenya—The early morning chill sweeps through the villages of Nyatike constituency in southwest Kenya near the border with Tanzania. Penina Omondi is busy sieving sand as she searches for ...

KHARTOUM—Sudan's opposition alliance blamed military rulers on May 14 for renewed street violence complicating efforts to negotiate a ...

MUTARE, Zimbabwe—Zimbabwe’s rural communities are beginning to stand up to Chinese companies operating in the country, as evidenced ...

The incumbent President Cyril Ramaphosa’s ANC dropped below 60 percent for the first time.

A 22-year-old British soldier has been killed by an elephant during anti-poaching operations in Africa. The Ministry of ...

The owners of a big cat breeding farm that supplies lions for tourists to pet and for hunters ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo/GENEVA—The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in Congo rose above 1,000 on Friday, ...

An Egyptian man who climbed the Great Pyramid of Giza Wednesday, allegedly throwing small stones at security who ...

MALAWI—On a cool morning, Moses Sitima sits on a wooden chair on the veranda of his two-bedroom house ...

PEMBA, Mozambique—Rains pounded parts of northern Mozambique on April 30, several days after Cyclone Kenneth struck the southern ...

A young woman in South Sudan was beaten to death by her brothers for refusing to wed a ...

MAPUTO—The United Nations will grant Mozambique and the Comoros Islands $13 million in emergency funds to help provide ...

BOSASO—A U.S. air strike killed three ISIS terrorists in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region on Friday, April 26, a ...

WASHINGTON—Nearly 40 world leaders and scores of finance officials, including International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde, are ...

MAPUTO/MORONI—Cyclone Kenneth battered northern Mozambique on April 25 with gusts of up to 280 km per hour (174 ...

CAIRO—Voters in Egypt approved constitutional amendments allowing President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to remain in power until 2030, election officials ...

An American woman who established a charity to help vulnerable girls in Liberia has resigned six months after ...

After being childless for 18 years, a 42-year-old Nigerian woman gave birth to five children on April 17 ...

Mountain gorillas at the Virunga National Park, a site gravely impacted by war and armed conflict in the Democratic ...

NAIROBI, Kenya—Sudanese protestors stepped up their demands for military to hand over power to civilians, announcing plans to name ...

CAIRO—Egypt’s parliament on April 16 approved amendments to the constitution that could keep President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi in power ...

MAI MAHIU, Kenya—When Peter Muchiri bought his 5-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 ...