World / Africa

Tunis: More than 1,000 people gathered on Sunday at a Tunisian port to welcome an aid boat from Barcelona carrying environmental activist Greta...

Kigali: Celebrities, politicians and conservationists took turns to announce names for 40 infant gorillas in a glamorous ceremony in Rwanda, where the endangered...

Nairobi: The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality,...

Juba: South Sudan on Saturday announced the "successful repatriation" of a Mexican citizen, one of eight men deported there from the United States...

Addis Ababa: African Group of Negotiators (AGN) and the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) have called for a reframing of global climate...

Khartoum: At least six people were killed, and around 20 others remain missing after the collapse of a traditional gold mine in River...

Kigali: Rwanda's annual gorilla naming ceremony, known locally as Kwita Izina, took place Friday, with 40 baby gorillas named by global leaders, artists,...

Abidjan: Eleven people including children were missing after a hippopotamus capsized their boat in southwestern Ivory Coast, a government official said Saturday. The...

Khartoum: Six people have been killed and up to 20 others are feared trapped after a gold mine collapsed in northern Sudan, authorities...

Tunis: A grandson of South Africa's anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela said Friday he would join pro-Palestinian activists seeking to break Israel's naval blockade...

Kampala: Uganda said on Friday that it is on high alert following an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the neighboring Democratic...

Algiers: Algerian Minister of Energy, Mines and Renewable Energy Mohamed Arkab discussed Friday with the visiting Namibian Vice President Lucia Witbooi, ways to...

Kampala: The cumulative number of confirmed mpox cases in Uganda has hit 8,001, with 50 deaths reported as the East African country registers...

Kinshasa: Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have declared a new outbreak of the Ebola virus, which has killed 15 people...

Khartoum: Sudanhas recovered 270 bodies from under the mud after a landslide buried a remote mountain village in the Darfur region, a civilian...

Khartoum: A massive landslide inSudan's western Darfur region has flattened an entire mountain village and killed more than 1,000 people, a rebel group...

Kuwait: The Ministerial Council of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) welcomed the mediation efforts of the State of Qatar and its hosting of...

Accra: The government of Ghana has renewed its fight against illegal mining activities, locally known as galamsey, barely a month after a military...