Africa

LAGOS—Nigerian Gbemisola Ijigbamigbe's right leg was virtually paralyzed after she contracted wild polio aged 11 months. Now the 28-year-old leads an active life as a wheelchair basketball player and also enjoys swimming ...

Sudanese PM Abdalla Hamdok said he held "direct and transparent" talks with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, ...

A new outbreak of the Ebola virus has infected 100 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

BAMAKO, Mali—Soldiers who ousted Mali's president in a coup promised on Aug. 19 to oversee elections within a ...

Sudan on Wednesday announced the firing of a diplomat who told a news agency the day prior that ...

BAMAKO—Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita resigned on Tuesday and dissolved parliament hours after soldiers detained him at gunpoint. ...

Mauritius has arrested the captain of a Japanese bulk carrier that ran aground off its coast, causing a ...

MOGADISHU—At least 16 people were killed in an attack on Sunday by the al Shabaab terrorist group at ...

MOGADISHU—Islamic terrorists stormed a high-end seaside hotel in Mogadishu on Sunday, killing at least seven people and wounding ...

NIAMEY, Niger—Armed forces from Niger and France have been deployed to pursue the gunmen who killed seven aid ...

JOHANNESBURG—Thousands of students, environmental activists, and residents of Mauritius were working around the clock on Aug. 9, trying ...

NIAMEY—Gunmen on motorcycles killed six French tourists and their Nigerien guide and driver in a wildlife park in ...

NAIROBI, Kenya—A car bomb exploded at the gates of a military base in Somalia's capital Saturday, killing at ...

The Indian Ocean island of Mauritius has declared a “state of environmental emergency.”

HARARE, Zimbabwe—A Zimbabwean investigative journalist will remain in jail after a judge dismissed his bail application on Aug. ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—Ethiopians in the capital are celebrating progress in the construction of the country’s dam on the ...

GABORONE, Botswana—Botswana’s government says it still doesn’t know what caused the deaths of hundreds of elephants in recent ...

JOHANNESBURG—Global hot spot South Africa is seeing a “huge discrepancy” between confirmed COVID-19 deaths and an unusually high ...

The U.S. military announced it carried out an airstrike against ISIS terrorists in Somalia on Tuesday, saying the ...

JOHANNESBURG—New satellite imagery shows the reservoir behind Ethiopia’s disputed hydroelectric dam beginning to fill, but an analyst says ...

JOHANNESBURG—Zindzi Mandela, the daughter of South African anti-apartheid leaders Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, has died aged 59. ...

At least five people died and 40 people were arrested following a church attack in South Africa, said ...

Five people have been killed and six hospitalized after gunmen took hostages at a church in South Africa ...

GABORONE—Botswana said on Friday it had received test results from samples sent to Zimbabwe to determine the cause ...

JOHANNESBURG—The COVID-19 pandemic in Africa is reaching “full speed,” the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief ...

An American airstrike on Thursday killed at least one terrorist of the al Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab group in Somalia, ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—At least 239 people have been killed and 3,500 arrested in more than a week of ...