In Kenya, 13 people have been killed in flash floods that hit the capital Nairobi this week, while 100,000 people have been displaced in Burundi by m...
Footage doing rounds on social media shows Al Ittihad striker Abderrazak Hamdallah, a Moroccan national, getting into a tense exchange with a fan in t...
Iran's Revolutionary Guards confirmed a drone and missile attack was launched against Israel in retaliation for the Damascus strike which killed seven...
Goma has a resident population of one million, with another million displaced by the war crammed into desperate, temporary camps that have become the...
During the current war, government forces have used their air power to bomb targets on the ground, but failed to gain back much territory and have bee...
Officials in the Indian Ocean archipelago said 38 prisoners escaped an overcrowded jail in the capital, Moroni, in a jailbreak initiated by a detained...
The decree came after more than 80 political parties and civil groups called for presidential elections "as soon as possible" and an end to military r...
The accord establishes a nine-member council -- seven voting members and two observers -- representing political parties, the private sector and civil...
The Palestinians, who have had observer status at the world body since 2012, have lobbied for years to gain full membership, which would amount to rec...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was "alarmed" by the raid, while Spain and the European Union both issued stinging statements condemning it as a...
The international community's failure to intervene has been a cause of lingering shame, with French President Macron expected to release a message say...
Kagame is expected to give a speech at a 10,000-seat arena in the capital, where Rwandans will later hold a candlelight vigil for those killed in the...
Ecuadoran President Daniel Noboa's government called the move an "illicit act" but Mexico insisted it had granted political asylum to Glas "after a th...
For 30 years Dafroza, 69, and Alain Gauthier, 75, have dedicated much of their spare time and now retirement to trawling parts of Rwanda to search for...
The Israeli military's heavy aerial bombardment in the aftermath of the attack, and its ongoing ground operations inside Gaza, have reduced many areas...
The tough language, describing the aid worker attack as "unacceptable" and urging Israel to take steps towards an immediate ceasefire, reflected mount...
The NGO called for the suspension of all deployments of Ethiopian federal forces to peacekeeping missions until "commanders responsible for grave abus...
The district, filled with Sudanese shops and restaurants, is a magnet for the growing numbers of people who have fled Sudan or find themselves unable...
More than 800,000 people, mainly ethnic Tutsis but also moderate Hutus, were killed in the murderous onslaught described as one of the darkest episode...
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