Africa

Amid the ongoing trade disputes that Beijing has instigated against Australian exporters, the Republic of Congo (ROC)—which is heavily indebted to China—has stripped three Australian mining firms of major iron ...

The White House has announced plans to establish a joint pandemic research institute between the United States and ...

LONG BEACH, Calif.–Gia Chacon, 23, grew up in a devout Christian household in Laguna Niguel, California, with “one ...

WASHINGTON—United Airlines said Wednesday it plans to add new non-stop flights to Africa, India, and Hawaii as it ...

SAN DIEGO—A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to resume issuing diversity visas for immigrants from underrepresented countries, ...

An Ontario woman is facing two counts of terrorism charges, including attempting to join ISIS, after she was ...

LAGOS—Nigerian Gbemisola Ijigbamigbe's right leg was virtually paralyzed after she contracted wild polio aged 11 months. Now the 28-year-old leads ...

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

TAIPEI, Taiwan—Taiwan opened a new diplomatic outpost in Africa on Aug. 17 in the capital of Somaliland, the ...

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

NAIROBI, Kenya—The crunch of young locusts comes with nearly every step. The worst outbreak of the voracious insects ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

JOHANNESBURG—African ambassadors in China have written to the country's foreign minister over what they call discrimination against Africans as the ...

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

JOHANNESBURG—The coronavirus has now been confirmed in at least 30 of Africa’s 54 countries, officials said March 16, ...

A Canadian woman and her Italian traveling companion who were suspected to have been abducted in West Africa ...

KAMPALA, Uganda—Young people played tug of war and others shook their bodies to crowd-pleasing music as a scorching ...

DAKAR—Senegal's health minister on Monday announced the first case of coronavirus in the country, the second case in ...

NAIROBI/ADDIS ABABA—Countries in East Africa are racing against time to prevent new swarms of locusts wreaking havoc with ...

The U.N. has requested more funding to tackle the unprecedented swarms of locusts ravaging crops and grazing land ...