Africa

ADDIS ABABA—Ethiopia's Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister warned Oct. 22 that if there's a need to go to war over a dam project disputed with Egypt his country could muster ...

Doctors reportedly banned a Ugandan woman from having any more children after she reportedly gave birth to at ...

Mexico's military police on Saturday halted and turned back a caravan of up to 2,000 migrants

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize on Oct. 11 for his peacemaking efforts ...

JUBA, South Sudan—South Sudan's government is failing to provide justice for victims of atrocities that were committed during ...

MUTARE, Zimbabwe—Chinese businesses are taking advantage of the rising demand for renewable sources of energy in Africa to ...

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration on Oct. 1 announced it is detaining clothing, gold, diamonds and other items believed to ...

A stowaway on a Royal Air Maroc flight was found dead in the landing gear of the jet ...

NAIROBI, Kenya—The deaths of five Kenyan security personnel in a recent attack by Somali terrorists has put the ...

Somalia's al-Shabaab launched two attacks on American and European military targets in the East African nation, said officials. ...

At least eight newborn babies died in a fire that occurred in a hospital’s neonatal ward in Algeria ...

A fire at an Islamic school in Liberia has killed at least 27 children, police said on Wednesday.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—The Chinese immigrants trying to survive in Johannesburg’s Chinatown these days are worried about their dwindling ...

An airport project in Luanda, the capital of Angola, Africa, represents one of the many frustrations of locals ...

At least 640 Nigerians have signed up to take free flights home from South Africa after xenophobic attacks ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—Amid fears that Beijing is taking control of various sectors of Africa’s economy, civil society organizations ...

Sudan's toppled former leader Omar al-Bashir was the only person with a key to a room at the ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe—Observing daily life in Zimbabwe's capital Harare, it's as if the death of former dictator Robert Mugabe ...

AINAMOI, Kenya—On a fine Saturday afternoon at Ainamoi shopping center in Kenya’s Kericho County, Leonard Biegon takes a ...

BLANTYRE, Malawi—Chinese telecom giant Huawei continues to be the focus of controversy, the latest being a purported link ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe—Robert Mugabe, the former leader of Zimbabwe forced to resign in 2017 after a 37-year rule marred ...

A teacher at the primary school where a 6-year-old girl was wrenched from her mother's hands as she ...

KASANGATI, Uganda—Ugandan politicians are calling on the government to scale down borrowing from China, citing concerns about the ...

JOHANNESBURG—South Africa's president condemned days of widespread looting and arson attacks on foreign-owned businesses across Johannesburg and the ...

The 6-year-old girl who was wrenched from her mother's grip outside of her primary school gates by four ...

BLANTYRE, Malawi—A court in Malawi blocked activists protesting the results of the presidential election, which took place earlier ...

Japan's private sector will invest $20 billion over three years in Africa, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe promised on ...