Africa

CAIRO—Forces aligned with Libya's internationally recognized government took control of an airbase southwest of Tripoli on May 18 after a sustained assault, in what could be their most significant advance ...

Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, who is accused of funding militias that massacred about 800,000 people, was arrested ...

The message “Taiwan Can Help” will appear in the skies above Canberra at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May ...

The spread and depth of China’s engagement in commerce, education, media, the military, security, and telecommunications in the ...

BRUSSELS—New CCP virus clusters have appeared as nations struggle to balance reopening economies with preventing a second wave ...

DAKAR, Senegal—A loud hiss and grunt come from a green bag pressing air through a tube, as Senegalese ...

MASERU—Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane's coalition fell apart in parliament on May 11, spelling the end of his ...

MASERU—Hours before she was shot dead on the outskirts of the capital, Lesotho's former first lady, Lipolelo Thabane, ...

CAIRO—The head of Libya’s internationally recognized government on May 5 called for a renewal of U.N.-brokered talks to ...

LAGOS, Nigeria—Nigeria began easing restrictions on May 4 in its capital Abuja and largest city Lagos, heralding the ...

MOGADISHU—A plane carrying aid supplies for use in the fight against the CCP virus crashed in Somalia on ...

Sudan’s new transitional government has officially criminalized female genital mutilation (FGM) in a landmark move for the country and a ...

ACCRA, Ghana—Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Ghana have surged above 2,000, increasing 24 percent in a matter of days, ...

Victorian Liberal Senator Sarah Henderson has called on Victorian Labor Premier Daniel Andrews to pull out of China’s ...

NAIROBI—Burundi's political parties started campaigning for next month's presidential elections on April 27 despite opposition accusations of intimidation ...

A group of Nigerian lawyers has filed a class-action lawsuit against Beijing over the spread of the CCP ...

Sixteen Republican U.S. senators have expressed concern about developing countries being weighed down by Chinese debt amid the ...

Abuse and racism against Africans in southern China amid pandemic fears have spurred backlash in their home countries, ...

LAGOS—The Nigerian president's chief of staff died on Friday from COVID-19, the presidency said on Saturday, making him ...

GUANGZHOU, China—Huddled under a highway bridge with a small bag of belongings, a 19-year-old student from Ivory Coast ...

CAIRO—An Egyptian policeman and seven suspected terrorists were killed on Tuesday in an exchange of gunfire, the ministry ...

LAGOS, Nigeria—Asita Awovie left Nigeria last year on a scholarship to study Civil Engineering at the Chang'an University ...

BENI, Congo—Congo has been battling an Ebola outbreak that has killed thousands of people for more than 18 ...

BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo—Air France confirms that it had to postpone a flight from the Republic of Congo ...

A precision air-strike by the U.S military in Somalia has killed a high-ranking leader of the al-Shabaab terrorist ...

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — A valley dam that authorities in Rwanda say could contain about 30,000 bodies has ...

South Africa's confirmed CCP virus cases jumped to 402 on Monday, an increase of 128 from the day ...