Africa

MAPUTO—The United Nations will grant Mozambique and the Comoros Islands $13 million in emergency funds to help provide food and water and repair damage to infrastructure, the organization said late ...

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 ...

The latest protests were called to mark the 34th anniversary of the toppling of former President Jaafar Muhammad ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe—The death toll from the cyclone that ripped into southern Africa last month is now above 1,000, ...

ALGIERS—Algeria's interim president, in a televised speech to the nation, promised on April 9 to organize free elections ...

An African hunter who killed over 5,000 elephants says he is totally unrepentant after being singled out in ...

TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya—A warplane attacked Tripoli's only functioning airport on April 8 as eastern forces advancing on the Libyan ...

KHARTOUM—Sudanese soldiers intervened to protect several thousand demonstrators calling for an end to President Omar al-Bashir's rule on ...

Egypt has unveiled the 2,500-year-old mummy of a high priest at an ancient cemetery south of Cairo. Egyptologist ...

MUTARE, Zimbabwe—The environmental impacts by some Chinese companies operating in Zimbabwe can only be described as catastrophic, according ...

A pride of lions have eaten a suspected poacher who died from an elephant attack in the South ...

TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya—Eastern Libyan forces carried out air strikes on the southern part of Tripoli on April 7 and ...

  KIGALI—Rwanda began a week of solemn ceremonies on April 7 to commemorate the lives of 800,000 Tutsi ...