World / Africa

Tunis: A pilot was killed on Friday in a military helicopter crash during a landing maneuver at the air base near the city...

Johannesburg: A U.S. tourist was killed by an elephant in the Zambian city of Livingstone Wednesday - in the second such attack in...

Juba, South Sudan: South Sudan ’s vice president said Thursday that peace talks in neighboring Kenya have failed to acknowledge the country's peace...

Nairobi: Thousands of mostly young demonstrators took to the streets across Kenya on Thursday to protest tax hikes, blowing whistles and chanting slogans...

Port Sudan: The ongoing civil war in Sudan has provoked one of the world's worst humanitarian crises in decades, the international chief of...

Juba, Sudan: Humanitarian access to war-torn Sudan remains woefully "insufficient", raising the risk of starvation among its population, Filippo Grandi, the head of...

Paris: World leaders, health groups and pharmaceutical firms announced $1.2 billion in funding at a summit Thursday to produce vaccines in Africa, which...

Bissau: The President of Guinea-Bissau Umaro Sissoco Embalo told AFP Wednesday that he ordered the partial closure of its border with Senegal after...

Pretoria: South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa was sworn in for a second full term as president in Pretoria on Wednesday, after his weakened African...

N'djamena, Chad:Explosions and fire at a military ammunition depot in Chad’s capital caused fatalities and set off frantic efforts to put out the...

Kinshasa: An American on trial in the Democratic Republic of Congo over an alleged coup bid suffered "torture" during his arrest, his lawyer...

Nairobi: Kenyan police fired tear gas and arrested at least a dozen demonstrators Tuesday as hundreds of people gathered near parliament to protest...

Harare: Eight people died and dozens were injured in Zimbabwe when a bus carrying churchgoers caught fire on its way back from an...

Cape Town: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was re-elected for a second term after his humbled ANC cobbled together an unprecedented coalition government....

Libreville: In a bar in Gabon's capital Libreville, revellers get up and dance as soon as the DJ plays N'Tcham -- a local...

Lilongwe, Malawi: Malawi's Vice President Saulos Chilima was killed in a plane crash, the nation's president said on Tuesday, after searchers located the...

Lilongwe, Malawi: Malawian searchers have found the wreckage of a plane that was carrying Vice President Saulos Chilima, a military source said Tuesday,...

Malawi’s government said a search has been launched for a plane carrying Vice President Saulos Chilima and nine other passengers that went missing...