Africa

OSLO—Pirates attacked an oil production vessel off Nigeria in the early hours on July 2 and kidnapped nine Nigerian nationals, the ship's owner, BW Offshore, said. The Sendje Berge ship ...

PARIS—The Paris appeals court, on Friday, July 1, upheld a decision to end a years-long investigation into the ...

Hundreds of elephants in northern Botswana have mysteriously died over the last two months in what experts are ...

ADDIS ABABA—At least 50 people were killed in Ethiopia's Oromiya region in protests following the fatal shooting of ...

Taiwan and Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland will establish representative offices in each other's capitals, Foreign Minister Joseph ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—Ethiopia on Saturday said it is set to begin filling a $4.6 billion hydroelectric dam on ...

BENI, Congo—Eastern Congo marked an official end on June 25 to the second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history, which ...

BLANTYRE, Malawi—Polls closed across Malawi on June 23 after millions voted for the country’s president in a rerun ...

JUBA, South Sudan—It began with a dry cough, weakness, and back pain. For Reagan Taban Augustino, part of ...

ROME—Italy, Germany, and the United States pushed on June 22 for a cease-fire and deescalation of tensions in ...

JOHANNESBURG—South Africa has announced nearly 5,000 new CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus cases for a new daily record. ...

News Analysis The United States welcomed the resumption of talks led by the United Nations between two Libyan ...

JOHANNESBURG—Researchers on June 16 announced the first drug shown to save lives among severely ill coronavirus patients, offering ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands—An alleged Sudanese militia leader charged with more than 50 crimes against humanity and war crimes ...

CAIRO—Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia on June 14 said talks would continue later this week to resolve their dispute ...

BANGUI, Central African Republic—Sudanese militia leader Ali Kushayb, who is charged with 50 crimes against humanity and war ...

Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza has died of a heart attack at age 56

A Russian drive to recruit Syrians to fight in Libya for militia leader Khalifa Haftar accelerated in May ...

PARIS—France said on Friday its military forces had killed al Qaeda's North Africa (AQMI) chief Abdelmalek Droukdel during ...

UNITED NATIONS—The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to move toward ending the joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa—South Africa's worst hotspot for the CCP virus is no longer testing most people under ...

TRIPOLI—Libya's internationally recognized government regained control of Tripoli on June 4, driving eastern forces out of the capital ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa—Many South Africans spent June 1 lining up outside liquor stores and celebrated with cheers ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo on June 1 reported a new Ebola outbreak in the northwestern portion of ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—A new report by the rights group Amnesty International accuses Ethiopia’s security forces of extrajudicial killings ...

China has been building key government offices and facilities in African countries for decades and fitting them with ...

MASERU—Lesotho's Prime Minister Thomas Thabane bowed to pressure to resign on May 19, three months after police named ...