Africa

A group of 28 Somali pirates was captured near the Lakshadweep Islands, southwest India, and were handed over to the Mumbai police.

It turns out Sudanese President Omar Bashir is feeling more heat from the international arrest warrant looming over ...

Across much of the African continent religious strife between Muslims and Christians is seemingly rife.

Tunisia's parliament granted emergency powers to the country's interim president on Monday, as the country continues to find ...

The independence referendum in Sudan shows that citizens from Southern Sudan want to secede from Northern Sudan.

To stop opposition groups from organizing protests, President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen, announced on Wednesday he would ...

Hosni Mubarak: The Egyptian Association for Change gathered outside the White House in support of the protests against ...

In the deeply and violently polarized politics of the Ivory Coast, partisan media has played a large part ...

Alluding to the tumult in Tunisia and Egypt, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said African leaders need to heed ...

Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo was named head of the African Union on Sunday.

Tunisia issued global alerts for ousted president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali on Wednesday.

While democracy may be a rare sight in the Arab world, it is not impossible, and Tunisia could ...

A month-long ban on cocoa exports from the world's No. 1 exporting country, Ivory Coast, is backed by ...

The president of the Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara, is banning exportation of cocoa beans for a month, beginning ...

Tunisians have started to set to rights 23 years of financial bleeding by the ousted president and his ...

The United Nations will deploy an additional 2000 peacekeepers to the Ivory Coast to prevent the post-electoral violence ...

Abdelkader Zitouni, leader of the Green Tunisia Party, will meet with interim President Mohammed Ghannouchi on Tuesday to ...

Tunisia's Interim prime minister said Sunday that a new coalition government will be announced after President Zine El ...

Even if separated, South and North will remain mutually dependent when it comes to oil.

An Algerian man died from a self-immolation on Saturday in a protest against unemployment, Reuters Africa has reported.

Tunisia's President, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, has fled the country by military plane, after dissolving parliament and declaring ...

Tunisian president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali today dismissed his government, declared a state of emergency, and promised new ...

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In southern Sudan, the minimum threshold of 60 percent, needed to validate the self-determination referendum in its fourth ...

Two French hostages were found dead on Saturday after they had been kidnapped from a restaurant in Niger's ...

Africa's largest country is already preparing to split into two sovereign states.

More than 50 people were killed and hundreds were injured in violent clashes in the Ivory Coast following ...