More than 50 people were rescued from an overcrowded boat in the central Mediterranean on Friday evening, nine of them children. It was the second rescue of the day for Italian NGO Organisation ...

Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine announced Saturday that he has fled the country to escape a military-led manhunt ...

Senegal successfully paid nearly half a billion dollars in debt obligations on Friday, avoiding default, but spending cuts, ...

People in the Republic of Congo are voting on Sunday to elect a new leader as incumbent President Dennis Sassou Nguesso runs for a fifth consecutive term. Three million people are registered to vote ...

An expert says most African countries have fuel reserves for just 15 to 25 days, compared to the International Energy Agency standard of 90 days.

The UN’s emergency relief chief condemned the “$1 billion-a-day” cost of the war roiling the Middle East, at a time of severe ...

Scores of pro-Iran Shia Muslims gathered at the Abuja National Mosque on Friday, defying a heavy security presence to mark ...

President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi warned last week that those accused of price manipulation would be tried in military courts ...

France returned a sacred drum that was taken from the Ivory Coast during colonial rule at a ceremony in Abidjan on Friday, ...

Many aspiring models look up to stars such as Awar Odhiang, who rose from a refugee camp in Ethiopia to close a show for ...

The death toll from devastating floods and landslides across East Africa has surpassed 110, with at least 64 people killed in ...

As explosions echoed over Tehran and the United States vowed to intensify strikes against Iran, hundreds gathered in Cape Town on Friday for an annual Quds Day rally, waving Iranian flags and voicing ...