In a plot twist that would not be out of place in a Hollywood film, Wine said he was "in hiding" when he heard about the Academy Award nomination last...

Al-Shabaab’s persistence has convinced Turkey that it needs to provide more active military support for Somalia’s development. Ankara also wants to pr...

Since the start of the conflict in April last year, nearly eight million people, half of them children, have fled Sudan.

The DRC demanded the withdrawal despite UN concerns about rampant violence in the east of the country.

The Kenyan-led UN multi-national security force has been held up for months over logistics issues, a legal challenge in Nairobi, and funding shortfall...

Sall's two-day "national dialogue" aimed at setting a date for the delayed election also advocated the head of state remain in office beyond the end o...

As inflation skyrockets, many poor Nigerians have had to skip meals and give up products now considered a luxury, such as meat, eggs and milk.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said the extreme polarisation exposed by the Gaza war had laid bare the double standards of some members of th...

Senegal is grappling with its worst political crisis in decades after Sall's last-minute deferral of the February 25, 2024 election.

The environment ministry said 499 of the thick-skinned herbivores were killed in 2023, mostly in state-run parks.

The shark was sold for about 43,000 Tanzanian shillings (US$17), probably for consumption in the local communities.

Sall presented the amnesty move as a way of reuniting the country, after bouts of unrest that have killed dozens in the past three years.

ECOWAS said it was lifting financial and economic sanctions against Guinea and ending restrictions on the recruitment of Malians to professional posit...

Antoine Galindo had travelled to Ethiopia to cover the African Union summit earlier this month for the specialist publication Africa Intelligence.

The war has killed thousands, including up to 15,000 in the West Darfur city of El Geneina alone, according to the UN experts.

The victims included one girl, 10 women and 14 men. Among them were an American, a Kenyan, and a South African.

Antibiotics are sometimes used as “quick fixes”, to avoid more costly management measures like regular disinfection, waste management, routine vaccina...

Known locally as the Djamaa El-Djazair, the modernist structure extends across 27.75 hectares (almost 70 acres), and is smaller only than the two mosq...

Israel's war cabinet agreed on Saturday to send a delegation to Qatar to continue the talks, according to Israeli media reports.

The victims were among the tens of thousands of people who crowded into a football stadium in Durban on Saturday for the launch of the African Nationa...

The war has led industries to cease production. Others were destroyed. Businesses and food stocks have been looted.

In May 2021, Germany acknowledged that the killings by its troops amounted to a genocide and has offered to fund development projects to a cost of 1.1...

The measures to be lifted included the freezing of Niger's assets in ECOWAS central banks and the suspension of financial transactions between ECOWAS...

Sebastian Kurz left politics in 2021 amid allegations of financial impropriety against his office.

In power since the advent of democracy in 1994, Ramaphosa's African National Congress has suffered a sharp decline in support, beset by allegations of...

Storm Eleanor was about 200 kilometres (125 miles) northeast of the nation at 4:00 am (0000 GMT) and was moving at a speed of 20 kilometres an hour.

The announcement came as the civil society collective Aar Sunu Election (Protect Our Election) said it had organised a new rally for Saturday.

The groups are most visible at roundabouts and main street intersections, where their often-masked members install checkpoints, blocking traffic with...

Heavy fighting again rocked Gaza on Wednesday as aid agencies warned of looming famine.

With 12 games left in the season, Bayern sit eight points behind Xabi Alonso's side, who have yet to lose during the campaign.