Bissau, A small boat carrying migrants has capsized off Guinea-Bissau, a port official said, adding that the vessel may have had more than...
Bissau, A small boat carrying migrants has capsized off Guinea-Bissau, a port official said, adding that the vessel may have had more than...
ACCRA, Ghana: Melania Trump has arrived in Ghana to open her first major solo international trip as U.S. first lady. She landed in...
ABUJA: Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari sought to reassure voters that next year's elections would be free and fair on Monday after the opposition...
YAOUNDE, Cameroon: Cameroon's president says Boko Haram has been defeated in the country, the first such announcement since he declared war on the...
ABUJA: Nigeria's women's affairs minister submitted her resignation in a letter to the president on Saturday, becoming the second cabinet member to step...
NAIROBI: At a dilapidated orphanage on the outskirts of eastern Nairobi, children with twisted limbs and clawed hands are slumped in wheelchairs, lie...
The death toll from Nigerian flooding has almost doubled while cocoa and rice production has been devastated after torrential rains caused two rivers...
Niamey: A cholera outbreak in Niger has killed 67 people since July out of thousands of recorded cases, the UN said Thursday, citing...
NGURIUNDITU: When Joyce Njenga replaced her traditional open-fire hearth with an energy-saving stove, she was pleased it lived up to its promised efficiencies:...
BAMAKO: At least 15 Tuaregs were killed when armed men from a rival tribe attacked their village in northern Mali, local authorities said...
Bamako, At least 12 Tuareg civilians died Tuesday in an attack in eastern Mali, a region hit by chronic unrest between local tribes...
NAIROBI: A South Sudanese surgeon, who has spent two decades helping the sick and injured in the war-torn east African nation, was on...
Addis Ababa: When Ethiopia released thousands of prisoners earlier this year, Hannah Tesemma hoped her three siblings and cousin, seized from the streets...
Lome: A former lawmaker in Togo was on Monday on hunger strike to call for the release of opposition supporters who were arrested...
NAIROBI, Kenya: Kenya's military says it's killed 10 rebels from the al-Shabab extremist group in an ambush in Kenya's south where several soldiers...
Ukara, Tanzania: Tanzania declared the whole nation was in mourning Sunday as the first dozen bodies were buried from a devastating ferry capsize...
Nairobi: The death toll from a crowded ferry capsizing in Lake Victoria rose sharply to 207 Saturday, a Tanzanian minister said, as rescue...
KINSHASA, Congo: A Congolese woman who refused an Ebola vaccination and then disappeared has died near the heavily traveled border with Uganda, which...
