Africa

All over the world, leaders are being turfed out of office—or at least being reminded that they can’t hold on to it forever.

In Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole, 2015 was a banner year for democratic transitions.

This is an incredible story about the bond between humans and animals—even ones in the wild. (tip: fast ...

Five years after the collapse of Libya, a new U.N.-backed national unity government has finally been unveiled.

Libya is rapidly turning into a new front in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS), which is ...

Diamond-rich Botswana avoided the dreaded resource curse and established a prosperous, stable democracy—but political turmoil has begun to ...

Protests broke out in Ethiopia in November, and the government is continuing its massive crackdown.

Four suicide bombers attacked a market and town on Monday in Cameroon's Far North region near the border ...

Africa's outsider leaders may have good ideas, but as in Croatia, the execution of those ideas is the ...

Located in central Africa, the small nation of Burundi is on the brink of civil war once again.

As the world's youngest country enters its third year of civil war, there are new hopes for a ...

Would a Cuban approach to combating HIV/AIDS have saved the lives of more than 30 million people—most of ...

A Burundian army official in says 87 people were killed in violence Friday when three military installations were ...

Gambia's president has declared the tiny West African country an Islamic republic, saying he decided this because Islam ...

Hundreds of supporters of Burkina Faso's newly elected president chanted "Presi, Presi" after preliminary results released Tuesday gave ...

Beijing's direct investment in Africa fell by between 40 and 84 percent in the first half of 2015.

The World Trade Organisation has agreed to extend a waiver that allows poor countries to copy patented medicines. ...

Girl suicide bombers killed 12 people over the weekend in Nigeria and Cameroon, officials said Monday of the ...

As song and prayer drifted from the open, ivy-lined doorways of a Catholic church in Garissa, several security ...

Mali began a three-day mourning period with flags flying at half-staff on Monday for victims of the assault ...

Islamic extremists armed with guns and throwing grenades stormed the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali's capital Friday morning

Men shouting "God is great" and armed with guns and throwing grenades stormed into the Radisson Blu Hotel ...

Temperatures were pushing 115 degrees Fahrenheit when we reached the crest of a rocky hill overlooking Ali Addeh, ...

Authorities in Libya's militia-held capital say they arrested an Emirati police officer on suspicion of being a spy

European leaders are pressing ahead with efforts to discourage economic migrants and find a way to send thousands ...

The European Union pressed African leaders on Wednesday to take back thousands of people who do not qualify ...

Egypt's military released a leading investigative journalist and human rights advocate on Tuesday who had been detained under ...