World / Africa

-Senegalese civil society groups on Thursday urged mass action after this month's presidential poll was deferred to December, as President Macky Sall sought...

London: Cocoa prices are smashing records almost daily in London and New York as bad weather destroys crops in Ghana and Ivory Coast,...

Rabat: Walid Regragui will continue as Morocco coach in spite of their Africa Cup of Nations failure, the national football federation said in...

Windhoek: Namibia's Vice-President Nangolo Mbumba has been sworn in as the new president of the country following the death of former President Hage...

Dakar: Opposition party supporters and police clashed in theSenegalese capital Dakar on Sunday after President Macky Sall announced the indefinite postponement of a...

Windhoek: Namibia's President Hage Geingob died early Sunday in a hospital in Windhoek, his office said. He was 82. Geingob, who was serving...

Nairobi: The deadly gas explosion that engulfed a Nairobi estate was a disaster waiting to happen, shaken residents told AFP on Friday as...

NAIROBI,Kenya: A vehicle loaded with gas exploded and set off an inferno that burned homes and warehouses inKenya's capital early Friday, killing at...

Bamako: Mali said Monday it had sent ECOWAS "formal notice" of its withdrawal from the West African bloc, a minister in the military...

Bamako: The military regimes in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger announced Sunday their immediate withdrawal from the West African bloc ECOWAS. The leaders...

Nairobi: Several hundred people marched in Nairobi on Saturday to protest against femicide in Kenya where over a dozen women have been killed...

Bamako, Mali:Mali’s junta has terminated a crucial agreement with local rebels that helped maintain a fragile peace in the country’s north, the government...

Nairobi: Kenya's government vowed Friday to challenge a court ruling against its decision to send a police contingent to Haiti to lead a...

Harare: Prominent former Zimbabwean opposition parliamentarian Job Sikhala, who has already been in jail for one-and-a-half years, was convicted Wednesday of inciting public...

Berlin: Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock set off for east Africa on Wednesday to push for sanctions to force Sudan's warring parties to...

Monrovia: Liberia's new presidentJoseph Boakaipledged to fight corruption in the West African country as he was sworn into office on Monday following his...

Geneva: The rollout of malaria vaccines in a regular immunisation programme marks a "turning point" in the fight against the disease, Aurelia Nguyen,...

Cairo: President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned Sunday that "Egypt will not allow anyone to threaten Somalia," after a controversial maritime deal between rival...